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SUBMITTER: Marr J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10947452 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marr Jeffrey J Ritchie Christine C Leff Bruce B Ornstein Katherine A KA
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20230901 9
The use of home-based medical care differed in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare in 2018. Having exactly one such visit was thirty-one times as likely for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries (18.6 percent) as for traditional Medicare beneficiaries (0.6 percent), likely reflecting incentives in the Medicare Advantage program to code all accurate diagnoses. Multiple home-based medical care visits were less likely in Medicare Advantage than in traditional Medicare (1.6 percent versus 2.1 per ...[more]