Medicare Advantage quality and enrollment

Austin Frakt

January 16, 2013

A new paper on the subject is out, by Rachel Reid et al. I’m not going to describe or comment much on it right now because (a) the paper is ungated, (b) the results are not terribly surprising, and (c) I’ve covered a lot about consumers’ response to health plan quality previously.

Suffice it to say, there is a statistically significant and positive correlation between Medicare Advantage plan quality (star) ratings and enrollment. Not unrelated, there’s money on the table.

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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 Senior 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.

Medicare Advantage quality and enrollment

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Medicare Advantage quality and enrollment

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