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Objective
To examine the effects of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment on patterns of end‐of‐life care.
Data sources
We used data from the Master Beneficiary Summary File, the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review, hospice claims, the Minimum Data Set, the Outcome and Assessment Information Set, the Area Health Resources File, and Geographic Variation Public Use File for 2012–2014.
Study design...
Research Objective
Americans who belong to racial/ethnic minorities, particularly those who are Black and/or Hispanic, face substantial inequities in access to care. To better understand the drivers of these inequities, it's important to quantify how care patterns differ between groups. There is limited research that describes patterns of post‐acute care (PAC) use of racial/ethnic minorities following...
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