{"id":24124,"date":"2025-03-13T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24124"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:20:47","slug":"research-brief-medicare-advantage-special-needs-plans-linked-to-use-of-inferior-hospice-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24124","title":{"rendered":"Research Brief:\u00a0Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans Linked to Use of Inferior Hospice Care\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS for Penn LDI on March 11, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beneficiaries of Medicare Advantage special needs plans are significantly more likely to use lower-quality hospices than beneficiaries of other Medicare plans. These disparities may result from the geographic availability of high-quality hospices or the referrals that beneficiaries receive from their plans\u2019 contracted hospitals and nursing homes. The results support incentivizing referrals to high-quality hospices and improving consumer information about hospice quality. <a href=\"https:\/\/ldi.upenn.edu\/our-work\/research-updates\/research-brief-medicare-advantage-special-needs-plans-linked-to-use-of-inferior-hospice-care\/\">Read here..<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" class=\"wp-image-16211\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_83902489life-and-death-end-of-life-funeral.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_83902489life-and-death-end-of-life-funeral.jpg 800w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_83902489life-and-death-end-of-life-funeral-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_83902489life-and-death-end-of-life-funeral-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_83902489life-and-death-end-of-life-funeral-392x272.jpg 392w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_83902489life-and-death-end-of-life-funeral-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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS for Penn LDI on March 11, 2025 Beneficiaries of Medicare Advantage special needs plans are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,12,200,5,16,6,9],"tags":[590,67,61,62],"class_list":["post-24124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-home-health-services","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-hospice","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24124","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24125,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24124\/revisions\/24125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}