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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

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A new systematic review compares Medicare Advantage with traditional
Medicare

Comparing Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare

In the June issue, Rajender Agarwal and coauthors conducted a systematic
review of forty-eight studies

comparing Medicare Advantage with traditional Medicare.

Compared with traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage was associated
with "higher use of preventive care visits, fewer hospital admissions,
fewer emergency department visits, shorter hospital and skilled nursing
facility lengths-of-stay, and lower health care spending."

However, the authors also found readmission rates, mortality, experience
of care, and disparities by race and ethnicity did not show better
performance in Medicare Advantage plans, despite their receipt of higher
payments.

On today's A Health Podyssey, Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews
Stacie Dusetzina and Michal Horný

on out-of-pocket health care spending.

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Katie Keith discusses the recent Supreme
Court decision

regarding unpaid cost-sharing reduction payments.

Also, Deborah Steinberg and coauthors discuss gaps in Medicare's
coverage for substance use disorder
treatment

that leave behind beneficiaries who need intermediate levels of care.

Elevating Voices: Pride Month: In a 2017 Health Affairs Blog post,
Landon Hughes and Heather Pearson advocate for adapting health care
quality measures
to
meet the needs of transgender people.

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Your Daily Digest

Comparing Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare: A Systematic
Review

Rajender Agarwal et al.

Podcast: Timing Out-Of-Pocket Spending In Health Care Is Challenging

Alan Weil, Stacie Dusetzina, and Michal Horný

Medicare's Discriminatory Coverage Policies For Substance Use
Disorders

Deborah Steinberg et al.

Let's Adapt Health Care Quality Measures To Meet The Needs of
Transgender People

Landon Hughes and Heather Pearson

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Timing Out-Of-Pocket Spending In Health Care Is Challenging

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Stacie
Dusetzina from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Michal
Horný from Emory University on out-of-pocket health care spending.

Listen Here

 

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