{"id":23882,"date":"2025-01-15T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23882"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:13:44","slug":"does-medicare-advantage-have-better-access-to-extra-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23882","title":{"rendered":"Does Medicare Advantage have better access to extra services?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A study by researchers at Mass General Brigham found that despite Medicare Advantage plans offering enhanced dental, vision, and hearing services, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries did not outperform their traditional Medicare counterparts in utilizing these benefits. Todd Shryock asks whether Medicare Advantage plans are providing supplemental benefits as advertised. Read Mr. Shryock\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/are-medicare-advantage-plans-really-providing-supplemental-benefits-as-advertised-\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/are-medicare-advantage-plans-really-providing-supplemental-benefits-as-advertised-\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" class=\"wp-image-8434\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-392x272.jpg 392w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by researchers at Mass General Brigham found that despite Medicare Advantage plans offering enhanced dental, vision, and hearing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9],"tags":[80,385,238,61,62,882,94],"class_list":["post-23882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-advantage-supplemental-benefits","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23883,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions\/23883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}