Differences in Management of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare Among Cardiology Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

One-third of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare's private plan option. Medicare Advantage incentivizes performance on evidence-based care, but limited information exists using reliable clinical data to determine whether this translates into better quality for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) enrolled in MA compared with those enrolled in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.

Objective

To determine differences in evidence-based secondary prevention treatments and intermediate outcomes among patients with CAD enrolled in MA vs FFS Medicare.

Design, setting, and participants

In this observational, retrospective, cohort study, deidentified data from patients 18 years or older diagnosed as having CAD between

SUBMITTER: Figueroa JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439549 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature