Medicare Advantage members less likely to be hospitalized, more likely to be shifted to other care: Study

Becker's Healthcare February 27, 2023
Rylee Wilson

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are less likely to be hospitalized for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions than their counterparts in traditional Medicare, but this care is shifted to other settings, a study published Feb. 24 in JAMA Health Forum found.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston studied data for more than 10 million MA and traditional Medicare beneficiaries from January to December 2018.

Medicare Advantage patients were less likely to be hospitalized for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions...

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