This is a guest post by Adam A. Markovitz, BS and Andrew M. Ryan, PhD. Our paper published on June 18th in Annals of Internal
This is a guest post by J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, Alan M. Zaslavsky, PhD, Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD.
One of the concerns about Medicare Advantage (MA) is that it doesn’t serve sick beneficiaries well, motivating some of them to switch to traditional Medicare
According to a new paper by Richard Kronick and W. Pete Welch, upcoding by Medicare Advantage plans happens. Big time. This matters because Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are
The following interesting idea arose this morning in email correspondence with Adrianna McIntyre of the Project Millennial blog.* One concern about the ACA exchanges is that some
Jordan Rao, for Kaiser Health News: A study released Thursday, by Gerald Riley, a researcher at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), adds to those
A new paper in Health Services Research by Michael Morrisey and colleagues examines favorable selection experienced by Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Though there is much more
One of the key concerns about private plans participating in Medicare (or private plans in general) is that they may “cream skim,” or establish benefits
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