MedCity News July 3, 2023
In 2018, there were 41.5 high-risk medications per 1,000 beneficiaries for Medicare Advantage, compared to 56.9 high-risk medications per 1,000 beneficiaries for traditional Medicare, a new study found.
Those enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans are less likely to be prescribed high-risk medications than those enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare plans, a new study found.
The study, published last week in JAMA Network Open, analyzed about 5.6 million Medicare Advantage beneficiaries and about 6.6 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries from 2013 and 2018. High-risk medications “are defined as medications that should be avoided for older patients because of age-related changes in pharmacodynamics and chronic illness burden that may increase these patients’ risk of avoidable hospitalization, health care spending, and death,” according to...
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