The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.
Building trust with patients who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare can help to improve their lives as they navigate receiving care to address their clinical and behavioral health needs.
These findings support the claim that Medicare Advantage (MA) payments may be driven more by diagnosis and coding practices rather than differences in disease burden between MA and fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries.