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Tuesday, September 20, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
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Dual Eligible Plans
Medicare Advantage Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) are
designed to provide services to people who are eligible for both
Medicare and Medicaid.
They are a large part of the Medicare coverage landscape and growing. By
2022, 4.1 million dual eligibles, or roughly 30 percent of all dual
eligibles, were enrolled in D-SNPs.
In their September 2022 article, Eric Roberts and Jennifer Mellor
compare experiences among dual eligibles enrolled in D-SNPs
,
other MA plans, and traditional Medicare.
They find that "dual eligibles in D-SNPs generally had greater access to
care, use of preventive services, and satisfaction with care than dual
eligibles in traditional Medicare."
However, enrollment in D-SNPs "was associated with fewer and smaller
improvements in care among dual eligibles of color than among their
non-Hispanic White counterparts."
Eric Roberts discusses the research in greater detail on a new episode
of A Health Podyssey
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For more content on the dually eligible population, check out the
Medicare and Medicaid Integration series
published on Health Affairs
Forefront.
Articles in the series feature policy analysis, proposals, and
commentary that inform policies to advance integrated care for those
dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.
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Eric Roberts On Dual Eligibles Coverage
Alan Weil interviews Eric Roberts from the University of Pittsburgh
School of Public Health about recent research in which he and Jennifer
Mellor compared the experiences of dual eligibles enrolled in D-SNPs
with those enrolled in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare.
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Daily Digest
Differences In Care Between Special Needs Plans And Other Medicare
Coverage For Dual Eligibles
Eric T. Roberts and Jennifer M. Mellor
Eric Roberts On Dual Eligibles Coverage
Eric Roberts and Alan Weil
Pediatric Gene Therapy Development Can Benefit From Trial
Decentralization
Cara Hunt et al.
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