Fierce Healthcare November 7, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.
The recently released report found that MA enrollees experience 70% fewer readmissions than fee-for-service beneficiaries and 24% fewer preventable hospitalizations, primarily driven by 59% fewer preventable acute hospitalizations.
“The study provides strong evidence that care management and coordination are key to better outcomes,” said Boris Vabson, health economist at Harvard Medical School and co-lead researcher on the project, in a statement. “While recent reforms such as the introduction of accountable care organizations (ACOs) have attempted to improve Medicare care management, our research shows additional steps are needed to improve care coordination and quality of care under fee-for-service Medicare.”
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