Advisory Board July 29, 2024
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries comprise an increasing share of patients admitted to hospitals, meaning hospitals are increasingly becoming more reliant on private insurers and subject to prior authorizations or potential claims denials, according to a recent analysis from KFF.
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Details on the report
For the report, KFF looked at the growth of MA as a share of hospital inpatient days between 2015 and 2022 using data from cost reports submitted to CMS.
KFF found that MA represents a growing share of hospital inpatient days, and that the share of total inpatient days attributed to MA enrollees increased from 13% in 2015 to 23% in 2022 among general short-term hospitals. In...
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