Healthcare Finance News July 11, 2023
For health plans, authors expect the study can provide a better understanding of the core customer segments of MA.
Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service Medicare enrollees have some significant differences in the year prior to enrollment in Medicare at age 65, including differing demographic and socioeconomic characteristics – traits that should be afforded more attention by MA payers, according to a new white paper by Harvard Medical School and analytics outfit Inovalon.
Demographically, MA enrollees differ meaningfully from FFS enrollees. MA has a slightly higher proportion of males. Compared to FFS, those in MA are also twice as likely to be non-white, and much more likely to be Black, Hispanic or Asian.
MA enrollees are more likely to live in the...
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