Another piece of research related to both social determinants of health and geographic variation in per person health spending.
Medicare patients with mental illness incur higher medical spending.
Today we cover the rest of the MedPAC Annual Report.
Another area dealt with extensively in the MedPAC annual report is Medicare Advantage.
MedPAC’s annual report to Congress includes examination of the effects of hospital consolidation and abuses of the 340B program.
The Commonwealth Fund explores Medicare spending trends by age group.
A MedPAC presentation looks at whether greater Medicare Advantage membership in a market is associated with spending or coding changes for FFS beneficiaries in those markets.
According to an article in Health Affairs, adding a cost-sharing free annual wellness visit to the Medicare benefits hasn’t done much for better health.
A presentation at the latest MedPAC meeting lays out the effects of provider consolidation on Medicare beneficiaries.
A paper analyzes whether actual better care management or selection of lower-risk patients drove early ACO shared savings program results.
The Government Accounting Office critiques the Medicare quality of care program.
A blog post at Health Affairs from CMS discusses the latest results from the Medicare ACOs.
An article in Health Affairs calls into question the method CMS uses for grouping hospital star ratings.
A study by MedPAC finds little spillover effect on spending in traditional Medicare.
Spending on post-acute care is much greater in traditional Medicare than it is among commercial payers for similar patients.