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Issues And Trends In Healthcare Delivery System

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Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform

Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform

Published on: April 12, 2021

Making Medicare advantage a middle-class program.

Jacob Glazer¹, Thomas G McGuire

¹Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Journal of Health Economics

|March 5, 2013

Summary

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Medicare's single premium policy for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans inefficiently sorts beneficiaries. A demand-based premium policy is needed to efficiently assign individuals to traditional Medicare (TM) or MA plans.

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Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform

Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform

Published on: April 12, 2021

Area of Science:

Health Economics
Public Policy
Healthcare Management

Background:

Traditional Medicare (TM) accommodates all care demands but risks moral hazard.
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans ration care, potentially overlooking beneficiary needs.
Beneficiary demand for care varies significantly.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the impact of Medicare's premium policies on beneficiary sorting between TM and MA.
To propose an efficient premium policy for optimal beneficiary assignment.
To identify strategies for improving MA plan efficiency and Medicare's overall performance.

Main Methods:

Economic modeling of beneficiary demand and plan characteristics.
Analysis of current Medicare premium policies.
Characterization of an efficient, demand-based premium policy.

Main Results:

A single premium for MA plans leads to inefficient sorting of beneficiaries.
Efficient sorting requires MA plans to target beneficiaries with moderate care demands.
Suboptimal sorting under current policies results in too many low-demand individuals in MA.

Conclusions:

Medicare's premium structure must be reformed to improve efficiency.
Demand-based premiums can facilitate efficient assignment of beneficiaries to TM and MA.
Policy adjustments can revitalize Medicare Advantage and enhance overall Medicare efficiency.