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 and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is 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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