A new health policy brief released this week examines how Medicare and Medicaid Data can be integrated to improve care quality and equity among dual-eligible beneficiaries.

Authors Brittany Brown-Podgorski and Eric Roberts review existing data resources to study the dual-eligible population. Some of their key findings include:

Multiple administrative, survey, and assessment data sources exist to measure health care use, expenditures, and outcomes among dual-eligible people.
However, each data source has shortcomings that limit comprehensive analyses of care quality and health care equity among dual eligibles.
The authors recommend several improvements to support more robust measurement of care quality and monitoring of health care equity for dual eligibles.

This brief is part of a series on Medicare and Medicaid Integration that's produced with the support of Arnold Ventures.

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