MarketScan: Medicare Advantage Plan
July/August 2023 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT This article identifies four essential attributes of the growth in Medicare Advantage Plans and interesting other facts.
Data Point: Discharge Planning Codes Identify Where the Patient is Being Referred
May/June 2022 Issue
FREE CONTENT The discharge status code identifies where the patient is being discharged to at the end of their facility stay or transferred to such as an acute/post-acute facility.
DataPoint: Readmissions By Payer
March/April 2022 Issue
FREE CONTENT Data Sharing: Number of readmissions, readmission rates, and average cost of readmissions
Six Digital Health Investments: What Are the Targets?
September/October 2021 Issue
SUBSCRIBER CONTENT Learn the specific six surging areas businesses are investing in that is creating a road map to healthcare’s future.
DATA POINT: 2021 Medicare Advantage Membership Growth Continues to Outpace Medicare Fee-For-Service Growth
January/February 2021 Issue
Medicare Advantage growth continues to outpace overall Medicare FFS membership growth, according to the latest statistics.
DATA POINT: Why Does Primary Care Spending Matter?
January/February 2021 Issue
Why should we be concerned that primary care spending appears to be declining? A growing body of evidence measuring health system performance and population health outcomes finds that greater primary care is associated with better value: enhanced population health outcomes, greater equity, and more efficient use of healthcare resources.
DataPoint: 40% of Americans Delay Care
September/October 2020 Issue
How is COVID-19 delaying care? Nationwide 40% of Americans are still delaying care according to a survey from the U.S. Census Bureau.
DataPoint: Medicare Advantage Penetration Reaches 36% in 2020
July/August 2020 Issue
Medicare Advantage penetration continued to grow following the 2020 Medicare Annual Election Period, reaching 36.0% in 2020, according to CMS’s March data release.
DataPoint: Almost 90% of COVID-19 Admissions Involve Comorbidities
July/August 2020 Issue
The hospitalization rate for COVID-19 is 4.6 per 100,000 population, and almost 90% of hospitalized patients have some type of underlying condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
