More than a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, which was created in large part to … the spillover effects of the Medicare Advantage program on the traditional Medicare program and other patients, taking … advantage of changes in Medicare Advantage payment policy to isolate exogenous increases in Medicare Advantage enrollment and …

I exploit the age-based eligibility structure of Medicare and the age gap between spouses to examine the impact of … Medicare eligibility of an older spouse on the insurance coverage of younger, Medicare-ineligible spouses. Using a regression … discontinuity framework, I find that Medicare eligibility of an older spouse can crowd-out the health insurance coverage of a …

Prior studies suggest that hospital care is countercyclical among Medicare beneficiaries, and if anything, procyclical … Medicare and privately insured patients across the business cycle. Using Florida discharge data aggregated to the physician … care to Medicare patients as the unemployment rate rises. Further analysis suggests that easing capacity constraints may …

introduction of prescription drug coverage for older individuals via Medicare Part D. For policy makers who design such a market … Medicare Part D. We first analyze how well the hypothetical choice data predict willingness to pay and market shares at the …

We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non … of administrative data on medical claims in Medicare Part D suggests that fewer than 25% of individuals enroll in plans … that are ex ante as good as the least cost plan specified by the Plan Finder tool made available to seniors by the Medicare …

The CMS-HCC risk adjustment system for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans calculates weights, which are effectively relative … beneficiary with those characteristics in Traditional Medicare (TM). For multiple reasons one might expect relative amounts in MA … Medicare beneficiaries in the two plans who have one of 48 different combinations of medical conditions. The two plans’ margins …

Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service toward episode …

, unhealthy behaviors decrease, and medical care use declines. We use data on elderly mortality rates and data from the Medicare … increases perhaps because of an increased physician willingness to accept Medicare patients. Our findings suggest that either …

We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS … Medicare claims data to separately estimate each type of provider response. We also examine changes in patient outcomes and …