Studies from University of Pennsylvania Have Provided New Data on Managed Care (Home Health Care Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries From 2010 To 2020): Managed Care

2025 MAR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting originating from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Medicare home health coverage is an important resource for Medicare beneficiaries requiring health care at home. However, there have been changes in the United States health care system that might impact home health utilization such as pressures to constrain Medicare spending, growth in Medicare Advantage (MA) plan enrollment, decline in institutional long-term care and growth of Medicaid home- and community-based services.”

Financial support for this research came from NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Pennsylvania, “Given these changes, we examined home health care use trends among beneficiaries enrolled in traditional Medicare ™ and MA from 2010 to 2020. We separately examined home health episodes that were initiated after a hospital or skilled nursing facility discharge and those initiated within the community and among dually and non-dually eligible beneficiaries. Home health use decreased among TM enrollees for both community-initiated and post-discharge needs but increased among MA enrollees for community-initiated home health use.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Increases in community-initiated home health use were concentrated in non-dually eligible beneficiaries.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Home Health Care Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries From 2010 To 2020. Medical Care Research and Review, 2025. Medical Care Research and Review can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Seiyoun Kim, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Rachel M. Werner, Mingyu Qi and R. Tamara Konetzka.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/10775587251318407. 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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