Tuesday, April 11, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Elizabeth "Liz" Jurinka, a policy maker with more than twenty years of experience working in Washington, DC, including on the ACA and CHIP, will join us on April 18 for a Professional Development event to discuss her approach to maintaining bipartisan relationships to improve health outcomes.
Do practice changes associated with growing enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) spill over to enrollees in traditional Medicare?
This month in Health Affairs, Fangli Geng and coauthors examine MA penetration rates across health care markets. They determine that as Medicare Advantage expands, postacute care use in both it and traditional Medicare declines, without a
corresponding increase in hospital readmissions.
This negative association is stronger in markets with a higher rate of traditional Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in accountable care organizations, the authors report, "suggesting that the combination of these two separate programs results in greater efficiency in postacute care delivery."
These findings indicate policy makers should look at the implications of MA expansion for both MA spending and traditional Medicare. For the full discussion of the policy implications of their research, read Geng and coauthors’ entire paper online today.
Matthew McCoy On Hospital Websites Tracking Your Data
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Matthew McCoy from the University of Pennsylvania on his recent paper examining third-party data tracking on hospital website home pages.
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