Home-Based Medical Care Use In Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare In 2018

Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 Sep;42(9):1198-1202. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00376.

Abstract

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 percent of beneficiaries, respectively).

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • House Calls
  • Humans
  • Medicare Part C*
  • Patient Care
  • United States