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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Medicare Advantage"”.
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Spillover Effects Of Medicare Advantage Plans: Does The Market Penetration Of Plans Affect Hospital Care Quality?
<p>The percentage of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans increased from 12 percent in 2003 to 28 percent in 2013 out of the about 50 million Medicare enrollees. Although Medicare beneficiaries are increasingly choosing MA plans, little is known about whether and how the …
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The effect of competition in the healthcare industry
This dissertation examines a number of issues related to competition in the healthcare industry. In the first chapter, I estimate the supply and demand behavior of participants in the MA market by utilizing the most recent available data. I use the estimated model to quantify the welfare effects of …
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Essays on insurance
… and I investigate an information friction in Medicare Advantage-beneficiaries pay two premiums, and one is much more salient. We find a larger demand elasticity for the salient versus non-salient premium. A model of insurer plan design produces simulated premiums matching the observed …
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Evaluating Adherence and Health Outcomes among Patients on Concomitant Diabetes, Hypertension, & Hyperlipidemia Treatments Using Marginal Structural Modeling
… triple therapy was conducted using a Texas Medicare Advantage database from January 2016 until December 2019. Medication adherence was measured using PDC during the follow-up periods to determine different adherence groups. A1C, LDL-C control and CV outcomes were also measured every 6 …
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An Examination of Trends in the Rates of Low-Value Opioids Prescribed for Acute Low Back Pain in Rural vs. Non-Rural Virginia
… for adults continuously enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, or commercial plans from 2019 to 2021. We used the Milliman MedInsight Health Waste Calculator to identify low-value claims and calculated annual and bi-monthly prescribing incidence rates per 1000 patients. Heterogeneous …