Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Beneficiary Risk Scores: Difference-in-Differences Analyses Show Increases for All Enrollees On Account of Market-Wide Changes

Medicare adjusts payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers using risk scores that summarize the relationship between fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare spending and beneficiaries’ demographic characteristics and documented health conditions. Research shows that MA insurers have increasingly documente...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tamara Beth Hayford PhD, Alice Levy Burns PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-07-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958018788640