Researchers at Boston University Report New Data on Healthcare Economics (The Persistence of Medicare Advantage Spillovers In the Post-affordable Care Act Era)

Health Policy and Law Daily

2020 DEC 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Economics - Healthcare Economics. According to news reporting from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Spillovers can arise in markets with multiple purchasers relying on shared producers. Prior studies have found such spillovers in health care, from managed care to nonmanaged care populations-reducing spending and utilization, and improving outcomes, including in Medicare.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Boston University, “This study provides the first plausibly causal estimates of such spillovers from Medicare Advantage (MA) to Traditional Medicare ™ in the post-Affordable Care Act era using an instrumental variables approach. Controlling for health status and other potential confounders, we estimate that a one percentage point increase in county-level MA penetration results in a $64 (95% CI: $18 to $110) (0.7%) reduction in standardized per-enrollee TM spending. We find evidence for reductions in utilization both on the intensive and extensive margins, across a number of health care services.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our results complement and extend prior work that found spillovers from MA to TM in earlier years and under different payment policies than are in place today.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Persistence of Medicare Advantage Spillovers In the Post-affordable Care Act Era. Health Economics, 2020. Health Economics can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Health Economics - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1050)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Yevgeniy Feyman, Boston University, School of Public Health, Dept. of Health Law Policy and Management, Boston, MA 02215, United States. Additional authors for this research include Steven D. Pizer and Austin B. Frakt.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4199. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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