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Thursday, September 21, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs
Dear John,
ICYMI: Aditi Sen joined A Health Podyssey to discuss her recent paper
that suggests that employers lack leverage to negotiate lower health
care prices.
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Variation in Resource Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries
In their article in the September issue of Health Affairs, Jeah Jung and
coauthors compare resource use between Medicare Advantage (MA) and
traditional Medicare
across thirty-three medical conditions in 2019.
Jung and coauthors find that MA generally had lower total resource use,
but by varying amounts across conditions, and that "this variation was
explained by resource use for hospital inpatient services in MA relative
to traditional Medicare."
MA enrollment was associated with increased resource use for imaging and
testing, which account for a large share of low-value care.
Jung and coauthors conclude that MA has less resource use than
traditional Medicare for those conditions where hospitalization can be
avoided, but insignificant differences in resource use from traditional
Medicare for conditions where hospitalization can be difficult to avoid,
such as acute myocardial infarction and cancer.
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The Practical Challenges Of Implementing Monthly Cost-Sharing Limits In
Commercial Health Plans
Paul R. Shafer et al.
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