Fierce Healthcare August 25, 2022
Integration of health insurance plans and healthcare provider systems could very well be the wave of the future, at least when it comes to treating the nation’s 58.6 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Spending discrepancies between Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees and those enrolled in a Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) point the way to a melding of entities, suggests an observational study published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open.
MA and MSSP are two key approaches to cost-effective care, and MA keeps growing. About 48% of Medicare beneficiaries currently belong to an MA plan, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In the study, researchers with the University of Pennsylvania found that care for MSSP enrollees in an accountable...
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