Quality of Hospices Used by Medicare Advantage and Traditional Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although enrollment in both hospice care and Medicare Advantage (MA) have grown substantially, little is known about the quality of hospice care received by MA beneficiaries relative to traditional Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries.

Objective

To compare hospice enrollment and the quality of hospices serving MA and FFS beneficiaries.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based cross-sectional study used Medicare enrollment and claims data from January 1, 2018, through December 31, 2019, and Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) data released between November 1, 2020, and August 30, 2022, to compare the probability of enrolling in hospice before death and the probability of using high- vs low-quality hospices between MA and FFS benef

SUBMITTER: White LLY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11650393 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature