Postacute Care Use and Outcomes Among Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Postacute care expenditures exceed $57.3 billion annually for traditional Medicare (TM) and drive regional spending variation. Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, with financial incentives to optimize postacute care, offer a compelling alternative. With more than half of Medicare beneficiaries now enrolled in MA, understanding postacute care use and outcomes across these groups is increasingly critical for policy and practice.

Objective

To analyze the association of MA enrollment with postacute care use and patient outcomes compared with TM.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-temporal cohort study using a difference-in-differences approach matched 2021 MA beneficiaries to 2015 TM beneficiaries with a high propensity of enrolling in MA. The study includ

SUBMITTER: Roy I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12573030 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature