McKnight's September 19, 2022
Members of Medicare Advantage plans used post-acute care less than people with traditional Medicare, according to an analysis of 62 studies on beneficiaries’ experiences with affordability, utilization and quality of both plans.
Overall, the investigation could not determine whether beneficiaries’ lower post-acute care use was associated with better or worse outcomes. The review included studies conducted since 2016.
One of the categories that showed some difference between the plans was utilization for post-acute needs, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniak, co-author of the Kaiser Family Foundation analysis titled Beneficiary Experience, Affordability, Utilization, and Quality in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare: A Review of the Literature, told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.
“It does look like utilization is lower among people who are in Medicare...
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