It is important to review and compare Medicare Advantage plan options carefully to choose the best plan that meets your healthcare needs and budget. To a large extent, the Medicare Advantage plan that’s best for you may depend on which plans are offered in your area and what your...
Comparing Group Medicare Advantage Plans and Private Medicare ExchangesKersting, Matthew A.Schatten, KirstenBenefits Quarterly
Unfortunately, many people find out too late that Medicaid does not offer what they desire: the kinds of choices, benefits, and coverage options provided by long-term care insurance. Medicaid Benefits and Requirements UnlikeMedicare, which is largely a federal program, Medicaid is primarily state-r...
We also plan to investigate the effect of the conversation structure (i.e., group) on the CQA variables via nonlinear mixed-effects models with ordinal logit link functions in similar fashion as described for the secondary analyses in Aim 1. We will apply mediation analyses described above [93...
Medicare Home Visit Program Associated with Fewer Hospital and Nursing Home Admissions, Increased Office Visits." Health Aff 2015;34(12):2138–2146. 10. Morikawa M. Towards community-based integrated care: trends and issues in Japan's long-term care policy. Int J Integr Care. 2014;14:e005....
It, thus, seems there is some advantage to consolidating testing at a few laboratories that can attain sufficient volume to justify sunk costs in developing the test and resources to ensure quality and reduce legal liability for errors. In the case of colon cancer testing, this has resulted in...
Skilled home health care (HHC) is a critical service for community-dwelling older adults with dementia, but the majority of evidence about its use and quality is based on Traditional Medicare (TM) beneficiaries. Medicare Advantage (MA) plans - which now enroll over half of Medicare beneficiaries...
Among 411,513 patients with FFS coverage in 2020, 10.1% switched to Medicare Advantage in 2021. Switchers constituted 12% of the dialysis population and 5% of the kidney transplant population. In the dialysis population, patients of Black race and Hispanic ethnicity were more likely to switch ...
Medicare Advantage (MA) covers more than 1/3rd of all Medicare beneficiaries. MA plans are required to provide the same benefits as Traditional Medicare (TM), but can impose utilization management tools to control costs. To assess differences between TM and MA enrollees in the probability of ...