MedCity News September 25, 2023
A new study found that MA beneficiaries have more than 50% fewer inpatient stays and 22% fewer emergency department visits than traditional Medicare enrollees.
Medicare Advantage enrollees have significantly lower healthcare utilization and expenditures when compared to traditional fee-for-service Medicare enrollees, a new study shows.
The study, published last week, was conducted by Harvard Medical School and Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based software solutions. It relied on Inovalon’s dataset, which tracks patients’ healthcare utilization under commercial insurance prior to turning 65 and their utilization after turning 65 under MA or traditional Medicare. The study period was from 2015 to 2019, and the researchers adjusted for differences between MA and traditional Medicare beneficiaries, such as demographic, clinical and socioeconomic factors.
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