Service use at the end-of-life in Medicare advantage versus traditional Medicare

DG Stevenson, JZ Ayanian, AM Zaslavsky… - Medical care, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Background: Relative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare, managed care plans caring for
Medicare beneficiaries may be better positioned to promote recommended services and …

Effects of Medicare advantage on patterns of end‐of‐life care among Medicare decedents

S Park, JM Teno, L White, NB Coe - Health services research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine the effects of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment on patterns of end‐
of‐life care. Data sources We used data from the Master Beneficiary Summary File, the …

Analysis of Medicare Advantage HMOs compared with traditional Medicare shows lower use of many services during 2003–09

BE Landon, AM Zaslavsky, RC Saunders… - Health …, 2012 - healthaffairs.org
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the managed care program for Medicare beneficiaries,
has grown rapidly, from 4.6 million enrollees in 2003 to 12.8 million by 2012, or 27 percent …

Medicare HMO impact on utilization at the end of life.

K Fonkych, JF O'Leary, GA Melnick… - The American journal of …, 2008 - europepmc.org
Objective To estimate the effect of independent practice association (IPA) model HMOs and
the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan's group model on inpatient utilization of Medicare …

Medicare Care Choices Model Improved End-Of-Life Care, Lowered Medicare Expenditures, And Increased Hospice Use: Study examines Medicare Care Choices …

K Kranker, MJ Niedzwiecki, RV Pohl, TL Saffer… - Health …, 2023 - healthaffairs.org
The Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) tested a new option for eligible Medicare
beneficiaries to receive conventional treatment for terminal conditions along with supportive …

Family and friend perceptions of quality of end-of-life care in Medicare Advantage vs traditional Medicare

CK Ankuda, AS Kelley, RS Morrison… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Medicare Advantage (MA) insures an increasing proportion of Medicare
beneficiaries, but evidence is lacking on patient or family perceptions of the quality of end-of …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of health care utilization by Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare beneficiaries with complex care needs

DD Antol, R Schwartz, A Caplan, A Casebeer… - JAMA Health …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Medicare beneficiaries with co-occurring chronic conditions and complex care
needs experience high rates of acute care utilization and poor outcomes. These patterns are …

Medicare beneficiaries more likely to receive appropriate ambulatory services in HMOs than in traditional Medicare

JZ Ayanian, BE Landon, AM Zaslavsky… - Health …, 2013 - healthaffairs.org
With quality-of-care bonus payments now available for Medicare Advantage health
maintenance organizations (HMOs) and for accountable care organizations in traditional …

Providing care at the end of life: do Medicare rules impede good care?

HA Huskamp, MB Buntin, V Wang, JP Newhouse - Health Affairs, 2001 - healthaffairs.org
Study Design To identify problems with the Medicare financing system, we conducted visits
to six sites across the country: five urban sites selected from the Center for Studying Health …

A longitudinal analysis of site of death: The effects of continuous enrollment in medicare advantage versus conventional medicare

EE Chen, EA Miller - Research on aging, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This study assessed the odds of dying in hospital associated with enrollment in Medicare
Advantage (MA) versus conventional Medicare Fee-for-Service (M-FFS). Data were derived …