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Home-Based Medical Care Use In Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare In 2018. 2023

Jeffrey Marr, and Christine Ritchie, and Bruce Leff, and Katherine A Ornstein

Jeffrey Marr (jmarr5@jhu.edu), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

The use of home-based medical care differed in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare in 2018. Having exactly one such visit was thirty-one times as likely for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries (18.6 percent) as for traditional Medicare beneficiaries (0.6 percent), likely reflecting incentives in the Medicare Advantage program to code all accurate diagnoses. Multiple home-based medical care visits were less likely in Medicare Advantage than in traditional Medicare (1.6 percent versus 2.1 percent of beneficiaries, respectively).

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D005791	Patient Care	The services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision.	Informal care,Care, Patient,Informal cares,care, Informal,cares, Informal
D006792	House Calls	Visits to the patient's home by professional personnel for the purpose of diagnosis and/or treatment.	Home Visits,Call, House,Calls, House,Home Visit,House Call,Visit, Home,Visits, Home
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D020398	Medicare Part C	The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 establishes a Medicare+Choice program under part C of Title XVIII, Section 4001, of the Social Security Act. Under this program, an eligible individual may elect to receive Medicare benefits through enrollment in a Medicare+Choice plan. Beneficiaries may choose to use private pay options, establish medical savings accounts, use managed care plans, or join provider-sponsored plans.	Medicare Choice,Medicare Plus Choice,Medicare Advantage,Medicare Plus Choice Program (US),Medicare+Choice Program (US),Advantage, Medicare,Advantages, Medicare,Choice, Medicare Plus,Medicare Advantages,Medicare+Choice Programs (US),Part C, Medicare,Plus Choice, Medicare,Program, Medicare+Choice (US),Programs, Medicare+Choice (US)