AcademyHealth: Medicare Advantage upcoding

Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) are probably at least a little healthier than those who enroll in traditional Medicare (TM). But, according to recent work, MA enrollees appear much sicker than they would if enrolled in TM due to how their illnesses are coded. Learn all about this upcoding my latest AcademyHealth post.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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