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Commentary: Don’t Further Privatize Medicare
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019 The Medicare program is quietly becoming privatized through increasing enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, even though MA has not lived up to its promise of delivering better care at lower cost.
David A. Lipschutz
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Explaining Health Reform: Key Changes in the Medicare Advantage Program [PDF]
, 2010 Summarizes changes to Medicare Advantage resulting from the 2010 healthcare reform law, including eliminating high payments to private plans, rewarding high-quality plans, and increasing consumer protections.
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Regulators use expedited approval pathways to speed market approval and patient access to promising new drugs. However, there is uncertainty about whether these pathways are successful in approving drugs with significant therapeutic advantages. This systematic review aims to examine the safety, effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of drugs approved via
Ashleigh Hooimeyer +4 more
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The Value of Experience: Differences in Knowledge among Medicare Beneficiaries
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2005 The Medicare Advantage program gives Medicare beneficiaries the opportunity to choose from an array of insurance options instead of receiving prescribed benefits.
Merrile Sing, Beth Stevens
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Medicare Advantage 2010 Data Spotlight: Plan Enrollment Patterns and Trends [PDF]
, 2010 Provides data on nationwide enrollment trends in Medicare Advantage plans by plan type, area, region, and firm or affiliate.
Dawn Phelps +3 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aim A prior non‐randomized study suggests that potassium supplementation may improve survival among furosemide initiators, and a randomized trial suggests that salt substitutes containing potassium might lower stroke risk. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using health‐care data to confirm or refute these associations among new users of ...
Thanh Phuong Pham Nguyen +8 more
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Mispricing in the Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Model
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2015 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented hierarchical condition category (HCC) models in 2004 to adjust payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to reflect enrollees’ expected health care costs.
Jing Chen PhD, MBA +3 more
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Medicare Advantage: Options for Standardizing Benefits and Information to Improve Consumer Choice [PDF]
, 2008 Describes the complex choices Medicare Advantage enrollees face. Discusses whether providing better information and decision-support tools, limiting out-of-pocket expenses, or standardizing benefits and cost-sharing would lead to better-informed ...
Ellen O'Brien, Jack Hoadley
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Investor Perceptions of Climate Policy: Insights From the US Inflation Reduction Act
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper provides the first event study evidence on how the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) dedicated climate provisions reshaped equity valuations in the US carbon‐intensive sectors. Focusing on environmentally sensitive industries (ESI), we analyze cumulative abnormal returns around the four key IRA milestones in 2022–2023.
Laura Ferraro +3 more
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The Emerging Role of Group Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans [PDF]
, 2008 Examines the legislative and regulatory changes contributing to the rapid growth of enrollment in group Medicare Advantage plans in private fee-for-service plans.
Jonathan Blum +3 more
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