Health Care Utilization, Care Satisfaction, and Health Status for Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Compared with traditional Medicare (TM) fee-for-service plans, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans may provide more-efficient care for beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) without compromising care quality.

Objective

To determine differences in health care utilization, care satisfaction, and health status for MA and TM beneficiaries with and without ADRD.

Design, setting, and participants

A cohort study was conducted of MA and TM beneficiaries with and without ADRD from all publicly available years of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey between 2010 and 2016. To address advantageous selection into MA plans, county-level MA enrollment rate was used as an instrument. Data were analyzed between July 2019 and December 2019.

Exposur

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7485599 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature