Is the Medicare Advantage Program a Disadvantage for Providers?Patrick K. O'Hare
“The study suggests that cancer patients with Medicare Advantage would experience better short-term health outcomes if more of them had access to hospitals that frequently perform complex cancer surgery,” said Mustafa Raoof, MD, MS, surgical oncologist at City of Hope and lead author of the stu...
In a prior study of Medicare Advantage recipients, neighborhood disadvantage was associated cross-sectionally with difficulty in activities of daily living,7 but longitudinal data are lacking. In the current study, we evaluated whether estimates of active and disabled life expectancy differ on the ...
They found that cancer patients who had their stomach or liver removed and had Medicare Advantage were 1.5 times more likely to die within the first month after surgery compared to their peers with traditional Medicare. Similarly, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who had oncologic surgery of the panc...
An analysis by researchers at City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, found that cancer patients with privatized, cost-saving Medicare Advantage were more likely than those with traditional Medic