Medicare and Medicaid
Our work in Medicare and Medicaid
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Medicare Advantage Enrollment Outpaces —and Nearly Overcomes— Traditional Medicare, New USC Study Finds
Medicare Advantage plans have seen a more than 300% increase in enrollment—with payment policy yet to catch up.
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Substantial Growth in Medicare Advantage and Implications for Reform
Between 2006 and 2022, traditional Medicare enrollment declined by 3% while adjusted Medicare Advantage enrollment increased by 337%.
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A New Approach to Cancer Bundled Payments in Medicare—The Enhancing Oncology Model
Schaeffer Nonresident Senior Fellow Bob Kocher discusses the elements of CMMI’s new Enhancing Oncology Model, explores its likelihood of success, and discusses its relative shortcomings in a new JAMA Health Forum Viewpoint.
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Seminar Series – Maggie Shi
Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits
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Shame Won’t Solve America’s Obesity Crisis: How Congress Can Help
If saving lives is the objective, then logic, clinical evidence and compassion dictate that Medicare should pay for preventing and treating obesity, starting now.
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Medicare Advantage: A Disadvantage for Complex Cancer Surgery Patients
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plan is associated with lower estimated hospital costs. However, compared with Traditional Medicare, MA beneficiaries had lower access to high-volume hospitals and increased 30-day mortality for stomach, pancreas, or liver surgery.
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Multi-Year Medicare Physician Fee Freeze Threatens Access: Pair Relief With Reforms
With fees frozen, high inflation threatens access to care and has other consequences.
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Comments on AHRQ Analysis of Requirements for Coverage with Evidence Development
Researchers submitted a comment letter on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s analysis for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)’s requirements for Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) study design.
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Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit and Diagnoses of Dementias and Cognitive Impairment
Increasing AWV take-up and supporting physicians’ performance of cognitive assessment may further improve dementia detection in the population and among groups at higher risk of undiagnosed dementia.
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Comments on the Request for Information on Medicare
Schaeffer Initiative experts submitted a comment letter responding to a recent request for information (RFI) related to the Medicare Advantage (MA) program
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