McKnight's June 29, 2023
Medicare Advantage — the private form of Medicare — has long been criticized for selectively enrolling healthier people to its managed care plans. But a new study that examined evidence of barriers to access finds that it is now holding onto more patients who are sick and who have complex health needs, researchers report.
“Twenty or 30 years ago, it used to be that people who develop chronic conditions switched back to traditional Medicare like crazy, but in our study, the switch-back rate was very low,” researcher Wendy Xu, PhD, of The Ohio State University’s College of Public Health said in a statement.
Xu and colleagues analyzed Medicare data from nearly 45,000 people who enrolled between 2009 and 2019, when...
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