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June 06, 2010 at 08:00 PM
Medicare Advantage plan practices may be reducing the likelihood that an enrollee will be re-admitted to the hospital by as much as 14% to 29%, according to America’s Health Insurance Plans.
AHIP today reported that conclusion in an analysis of Medicare Advantage plan and traditional Medicare fee-for-service program hospital readmission rates.
AHIP looked at Medicare program data from 9 states, then determined what percentage of Medicare Advantage plan enrollees discharged from a hospital were rehospitalized within 30 days and what percentage were rehospitalized within 90 days.
About 20% of the patients enrolled in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program were rehospitalized within 30 days, and 34% of the Medicare FFS patients were rehospitalized within 90 days, AHIP says, citing figures published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
