Growth in Medicare Advantage plans linked to decreased cost and utilization for high-need, high-cost fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions.
This case study highlights an accountable care organization’s home-based primary care program for homebound older adults, with early analysis of outcomes showing reduced acute care utilization.
Details the landscape of integrated care models and identifies policy recommendations to increase the availability of integrated care for dually eligible individuals.
Poses key questions to help states new to Medicare-Medicaid integration assess readiness for integration and select an achievable integration approach.
Highlights early findings demonstrating that Medicare-Medicaid integration can improve beneficiary experience and health outcomes, increase program efficiencies, and improve Medicaid program management.
Details how dually enrolled beneficiaries have significantly higher levels of comorbidities and higher costs of care than their non-dually enrolled counterparts.
Examines the potential for Minnesota’s integrated care model to lower use of hospital care and increase use of primary care and community-based services for dually eligible older adults.