Effect of Medicare Advantage on health care use and care dissatisfaction in mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effects of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment on health care use and dissatisfaction with care received among Medicare beneficiaries with mental illness.

Data sources

I identified traditional Medicare (TM) and MA beneficiaries with mental illness using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey for 2012-2016.

Study design

I included two types of outcomes: four measures of health care use and 10 measures of care dissatisfaction. My primary independent variable was enrollment in TM versus MA. To address selective enrollment into MA, I used an instrumental variable (IV) approach. Following prior research, I decomposed the MA benchmark into exogenous and endogenous components and then used the exogenous component as my instrument.

Data collection/

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9264478 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature