Health Affairs January 5, 2021
Allyson Y. Schwartz

Publisher’s note: This post is paid for and provided by Better Medicare Alliance. The views expressed by the authors are their own.

As Medicare Advantage now exceeds 40 percent of all Medicare enrollment, and with continued robust growth year over year, interest in quality and cost as compared to Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare grows as well. Results from a recent large-scale comparative analysis conducted by Avalere Health commissioned by Better Medicare Alliance’s Center for Innovation in Medicare Advantage show that Medicare Advantage outperforms Traditional Fee-for-Service (FFS) Medicare across a range of quality measures and utilization and cost metrics.

With a new administration and Congress poised to make important decisions in health care policy, this independent analysis provides meaningful information on the...

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Topics: CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Survey / Study, Trends
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