Viewpoint: Medicare Advantage claims data should be made public

Becker's Healthcare February 20, 2018
Morgan Haefner

While claims-level data for traditional Medicare has been available for several decades, the same light has not been shed on Medicare Advantage data, according to an opinion article published by JAMA.

Here are four takeaways from the article.

1. The authors — Niall Brennan, president of Health Care Cost Institute; Charles Ornstein, a senior editor at ProPublica; and Austin Frakt, PhD, a health economist in healthcare financing and economics and co-principal investigator of the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System — argue that while the Medicare Advantage program has grown to cover 19 million Americans, little insight has been provided on the value Medicare Advantage provides its beneficiaries.
2. While CMS planned to release Medicare Advantage...

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