Is the Medicare Advantage Program a Disadvantage for Providers?Patrick K. O'Hare
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...
“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...