Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Medicare
That’s where the money is
When asked why he robbed banks, the famous robber Wille Sutton supposedly said: “Because that’s where the money is.” End-of-life medical spending has long attracted attention from healthcare policymakers for the same reason. Medicare spends a quarter of its budget Continue Reading …
Home Visits Help the Elderly
A mixed methods study explored the effectiveness of five different home visiting programs on reducing hospitalizations, ED visits, and expenditures among Medicare beneficiaries. These programs use care teams comprised of registered nurses or lay health workers as lead staff on Continue Reading …
Lower Readmissions for Medicare Advantage
Reducing has been a quality measure which has recently received significant attention as a way to potentially decrease our nation’s healthcare expenditures. By improving outpatient resources and ensuring continuity of care after discharge, policymakers hope to decrease preventable readmissions. There Continue Reading …
No Difference Between Public & Private Coverage
A new study confirms what many think, that some insurance coverage is better than none. What may challenge some people’s preconceptions is that whether that insurance coverage is private or public (i.e. Medicare or Medicaid) access to care is fairly Continue Reading …
Medicare Advantage pays less than Fee for Service
According to conventional wisdom among health policymakers and health economists, traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare ought to be able to extract lower per unit prices than privately operated Medicare Advantage plans due to the former’s monopsony buying power. A new scientific Continue Reading …