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Implementing Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program: An Expressway to Solvency

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2022
The Medicare program faces increasing budgetary pressures, with recent estimates suggesting that the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust will be insolvent as soon as 2028.
Rohini Chakravarthy MD, MBA, Gail R. Wilensky PhD, Brian J. Miller MD, MBA, MPH   +2 more
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Improving Affordability and Equity in Medicare Advantage

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019
Facing projected growth in federal deficits, policymakers may increasingly look to Medicare for opportunities to slow spending. Medicare Advantage, which has grown to over one-third of the Medicare population, now costs the federal government over $230 ...
Zirui Song MD, PhD, Sanjay Basu MD, PhD
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Medical-Dental Integration in Medicare: Where are We Now?

Journal of the California Dental Association, 2023
Medicare provides comprehensive medical coverage for nearly all U.S. adults over age 65 and those with disabilities, with far-reaching improvements in health care access and equity for those it serves. Despite recent political action, the dental coverage
Lisa Simon, Elizabeth Alpert
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What’s Driving High Disenrollment in Medicare Advantage?

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019
Disenrollment rates are one way that policy makers assess the performance of Medicare Advantage (MA) health plans. We use 3 years of data published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine the characteristics of MA contracts with ...
Eva DuGoff PhD, MPP, Sandra Chao MPH
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Examining annual transitions in healthcare spending among U.S. medicare beneficiaries using multistate Markov models: Analysis of medicare current beneficiary survey data, 2003–2019

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
Many studies have examined factors associated with individuals of high or low healthcare spending in a given year. However, few have studied how healthcare spending changes over multiple years and which factors are associated with the changes.
Lihua Li, Serena Zhan, Karen Mckendrick, Chen Yang, Madhu Mazumdar, Amy S. Kelley, Melissa D. Aldridge   +6 more
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Dominated choices and Medicare Advantage enrollment [PDF]

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015
Research in behavioral economics suggests that certain circumstances, such as large numbers of complex options or revisiting prior choices, can lead to decision errors. This paper explores the enrollment decisions of Medicare beneficiaries in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. During the time period we study (2007-2010), private fee-for-service (PFFS)
Christopher C. Afendulis, Anna D. Sinaiko, Richard G. Frank   +2 more
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Examining Sources of Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Supplemental Insurance, Medicare Advantage, and Prescription Drug Coverage [PDF]

, 2008
Provides 2006 data on Medicare enrollees' supplemental and drug coverage. Compares traits of Medicare Advantage enrollees to those of fee-for-service Medicare enrollees, and examines drug coverage and subsidy status among low-income ...
Anthony Damico, Juliette Cubanski, Michelle Kitchman Strollo, Richard Gonzales, Tricia Neuman   +4 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
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Breast cancer screening among Medicare Advantage enrollees with dementia

BMC Health Services Research
Background The decision to screen for breast cancer among older adults with dementia is complex and must often be individualized, as these individuals have an elevated risk of harm from over-screening.
Eli Raver, Wendy Y. Xu, Jeah Jung, Sunmin Lee   +3 more
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The Obama Administration's 2010 Call Letter for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans: Implications for Beneficiaries [PDF]

, 2009
Outlines key provisions and changes in the Medicare Advantage or Medicare Prescription Drug plans in 2010. Discusses requirements to improve accountability, promote informed health plan choices, and increase beneficiary ...

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