AcademyHealth: Medicare Advantage risk selection

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 (TM). My final blog post for AcademyHealth explores this topic.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Vice President and Chief Research Officer at Joint Commission. He is also Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Editor in Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Vice President and Chief Research Officer at Joint Commission. He is also Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Editor in Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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