How Successful Is Medicare Advantage?
Medicare Part C, or Medicare Advantage (MA), now almost 30 years old, has generally been viewed as a policy disappointment.
Research
Economic Origins of Democratic Breakdown? The Redistributive Model and the Postcolonial State
From Aristotle to Acemoglu and Robinson, scholars have argued that democracy possesses powerful redistributive impulses, and imperils itself accordingly.
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise?
Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems
Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service toward episode-based payment, affecting average and marginal payment.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Use of Mammography Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare
Background Breast cancer is a leading cause of mortality for women in all racial/ethnic groups.
Integrating Risk Adjustment and Enrollee Premiums in Health Plan Payment
In two important health policy contexts – private plans in Medicare and the new state-run “Exchanges” created as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – plan payments come from two sources: risk-adjus
Responses to Medicare Drug Costs among Near-Poor versus Subsidized Beneficiaries
Objective: There is limited information on the protective value of Medicare Part D low-income subsidies ( LIS).
Service Use at the End of Life in Medicare Advantage versus Traditional Medicare
Background: Relative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare, managed care plans caring for Medicare beneficiaries may be better positioned to promote recommended services and discourage burdensome pr
Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending in the United States
Geographic variation in per-beneficiary Medicare spending that cannot be explained by wages and the prices of other inputs to health care or by demographic and health characteristics, as described by
Physician Agency and Competition: Evidence from a Major Change to Medicare Chemotherapy Reimbursement Policy
We investigate the role of physician agency and competition in determining health care supply and patient outcomes.
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