Medical Xpress August 30, 2024
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans is not associated with altered frailty trajectories compared with enrollment in Traditional Medicare (TM), according to research published in JAMA Network Open.
In the article “Frailty in Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries,” lead author Sandra M. Shi, MD, MPH and colleagues suggest that more work is needed to better understand the health service needs of older adults with frailty.
“A growing proportion of the population is enrolling in Medicare Advantage (MA), which typically offers additional benefits compared with traditional Medicare (TM),” said Shi, a geriatrician and clinician-investigator at Harvard Medical School and the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging...
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