MedCity News November 1, 2023
Medicare Advantage members have fewer readmissions, fewer preventable hospitalizations and lower rates of high-risk medication use than traditional Medicare, new research by Harvard Medical School and Inovalon shows.
A new study found that Medicare Advantage members experience better quality outcomes than fee-for-service Medicare members, including fewer readmissions, fewer preventable hospitalizations and lower rates of high-risk medication use.
The study was published Wednesday by Harvard Medical School and Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based software solutions. Inovalon’s dataset allows the researchers to track from before patients turned 65 and were covered under commercial insurance to after they turned 65 and enrolled in Medicare. The study relied on a sample of 50,512 individuals enrolled in fee-for-service Medicare and 10,158 individuals enrolled in MA....
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