A. “Mandated Analysis of Home Health Service Utilization From January 2016 Through March 2022,” (A-05-20-00031, December 2022, .pdf format, 20p.).
oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region5/52000031.asp
B. “Medicare Part B Spending on Lab Tests Increased in 2021, Driven By Higher Volume of COVID-19 Tests, Genetic Tests, and Chemistry Tests,” (OEI-09-22-00400, December 2022, .pdf format, 13p.).
“Medicare: CMS Needs to Address Risks Posed by Provider Enrollment Waivers and Flexibilities,” (GAO-23-105494, December 2022, .pdf format, 50p.).
“Association of Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare With 30-Day Mortality Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction,” by Bruce E. Landon, Timothy S. Anderson, Vilsa E. Curto, Peter Cram, Christina Fu, Gabe Weinreb, Alan M. Zaslavsky, and John Z. Ayanian (Vol. 328, No. 21, December 6, 2022, p. 2126-2135).
– An agenda and transcript of the November 3-4, 2022 meeting is available.
www.medpac.gov/meeting/november-3-4-2022/
Transcript (.pdf format, 378p.):
www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/November-2022-MedPAC-meeting-transcripts-SEC.pdf
“Medicare Part D: A First Look at Medicare Drug Plans in 2023,” by Juliette Cubanski and Anthony Damico (November 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 13p.).
www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/medicare-part-d-a-first-look-at-medicare-drug-plans-in-2023/
Educational Gerontology (Vol. 48, No. 12, 2022).
www.tandfonline.com/toc/uedg20/48/12?nav=tocList
Health Affairs (Vol. 41, No. 11, November 2022).
www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/41/11
Journal of Population Aging (Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2022).
A. “A Relatively Small Share of Medicare Beneficiaries Compared Plans During a Recent Open Enrollment Period,” by Nancy Ochieng, Juliette Cubanski, Meredith Freed, and Tricia Neuman (November 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 11p.).
B. “Medicare Beneficiaries Rarely Change Their Coverage During Open Enrollment,” by Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Anthony Damico, Juliette Cubanski, and Tricia Neuman (November 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 7p.).
“Association of Hospital Participation in Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced With Medicare Spending and Hospital Incentive Payments,” by Sukruth A. Shashikumar, Baris Gulseren, Nicholas L. Berlin, John M. Hollingsworth, Karen E. Joynt Maddox, and Andrew M. Ryan (Vol. 328, No. 16, October 25, 2022, p. 1616-1623).
“Expert Consensus on the Impact of COVID-Response Medicare Policies on Mental Health, Substance Use Care, and Costs,” by Beth McGinty, Sarah A. White, Victoria R. Green, and Alexander D. McCourt (October 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 12p.).
“Prescription Drug Spending in Fee-for-Service Medicare, 2008-2019,” by Stacie B. Dusetzina, Haiden A. Huskamp, Xuanzi Qin, and Nancy L. Keating (Vol. 328, No. 15, October 18, 2022, p. 1515-1522).
“Traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage: How Older Americans Choose and Why,” by Faith Leonard, Gretchen Jacobson, Lauren A. Haynes, and Sara R. Collins (October 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 5p.).
“Medicare Part B Drug Payments: Impact of Price Substitutions Based on 2020 Average Sales Prices,” (OEI-03-22-00170, September 2022, .pdf format, 7p.).
“Medicare Telehealth: Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight and Help Providers Educate Patients on Privacy and Security Risks,” (GAO-22-104454, September 2022, .pdf format, 75p.).
“The Medicare Financing Conundrum: Revenues, Spending, and Short- and Long-Term Fiscal Challenges,” by C. Eugene Steuerle and Bowen Garrett (September 2022, .pdf format, 16p.).
www.urban.org/research/publication/medicare-financing-conundrum
“Opioid Overdoses and the Limited Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Continue To Be Concerns for Medicare Beneficiaries,” (OEI-02-22-00390, September 2022, .pdf format, 23p.).
Educational Gerontology (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2022).
www.tandfonline.com/toc/uedg20/48/10?nav=tocList
Health Affairs (Vol. 41, No. 9, September 2022).
– An agenda and transcript of the September 1-2, 2022 meeting is available.
www.medpac.gov/meeting/september-1-2-2022/
Transcript (.pdf format, 319p.):
www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sept_1_2_2022_MedPAC_meeting_transcript_SEC.pdf
“Certain Medicare Beneficiaries, Such as Urban and Hispanic Beneficiaries, Were More Likely Than Others To Use Telehealth During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” (OEI-02-20-00522, September 2022, .pdf format, 35p.).
“How Redistributive Are Public Health Care Schemes? Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid in Old Age,” by Karolos Arapakis, Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Jeremy McCauley (WP 2022-441, June 2022, .pdf format, 44p.). Note: A link to the abstract and the full-text of this paper is available at:
“How Will the Prescription Drug Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Affect Medicare Beneficiaries?” by Juliette Cubanski, Tricia Neuman, Meredith Freed, and Anthony Damico (August 2022, HTML and .pdf format, 8p.).
A. “Changes in spending, utilization, and quality of care among Medicare accountable care organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic,” by Brandon W. Yan, Maya Shashoua, and Jose F. Figueroa (PLoS ONE 17(8): e0272706., XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 11p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272706
B. “Rehabilitation interventions for persons with hip fracture and cognitive impairment: A scoping review,” by Lauren Cadel, Kerry Kuluski, Walter P. Wodchis, Kednapa Thavorn, and Sara J. T. Guilcher (PLoS ONE 17(8): e0273038. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273038, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 21p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273038
“Part D Plan Preference for Higher-Cost Hepatitis C Drugs Led to Higher Medicare and Beneficiary Spending,” (OEI-BL-21-00200, August 2022, .pdf format, 35p.).
Age and Ageing (Vol. 51, No. 7, July 2022).
academic.oup.com/ageing/issue/51/7
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (Vol. 30, No. 9, September 2022).
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-american-journal-of-geriatric-psychiatry/vol/30/issue/9
Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement (Vol. 41, No. 3, September 2022).
Health Affairs (Vol. 41, No. 8, August 2022).
“How Would the Prescription Drug Provisions in the Senate Reconciliation Proposal Affect Medicare Beneficiaries?” by Juliette Cubanski, Tricia Neuman, Meredith Freed, and Anthony Damico (July 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 8p.).
“Protecting America’s Seniors: Oversight of Private Sector Medicare Advantage Plans,” a hearing held June 28, 2022 (witness statements available in .pdf format, video of the full hearing available at the site, running time 2 hour 15 minutes). Note: Hearing begins aa the 7:35 mark.
“Changes in Medicare Home Health Use During COVID-19 and the Implications for Health Equity and Caregiver Availability,” by Melissa Morley, Matt Kazan, Shruthi Donthi, Kiran Sunkari, and Mallory Yung (June 2022, .pdf, Powerpoint, and HTML format, 12p.).
“Lowering the Age of Medicare Eligibility to 60: Effects on Coverage and Spending,” by John Holahan, Matthew Buettgens, Andrew Green, Michael Simpson, and Jessica Banthin (June 2022, .pdf format, p.).
www.urban.org/research/publication/lowering-age-medicare-eligibility-60
“Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System,” (June 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 243p.).
A. “Inaccuracies in Medicare’s Race and Ethnicity Data Hinder the Ability To Assess Health Disparities,” (OEI-02-21-00100, June 2022, .pdf format, 24p.).
oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/OEI-02-21-00100.asp
B. “2021 Performance Data for the Senior Medicare Patrol Projects,” (OEI-02-22-00310, June 2022, .pdf format, 81p.).
“Does Public Policy Affect Attitudes? Evidence from Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States,” by Baris Yoruk (IZA Discussion Paper 15346, June 2022, .pdf format, 35p.). Note: A link to the abstract and the full-text of this paper is available at:
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (Vol. 30, No. 7, July 2022).
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-american-journal-of-geriatric-psychiatry/vol/30/issue/7
Dementia (Vol. 21, No. 4, May 2022).
journals.sagepub.com/toc/dema/21/4
Health Affairs (Vol. 41, No. 6, June 2022).
www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/41/6
International Journal of Aging and Human Development (Vol. 95, No. 1, July 2022).
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ahdb/95/1
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (Vol. 87, No. 3, 2022).
content.iospress.com/journals/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/87/3
Journals of Gerontology (A): Biological Sciences (Vol. 77A, No. 6, June 2022).
academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/issue/77/6
Journals of Gerontology (B): Psychological Sciences (Vol. 77B, No. 6, June 2022).
“2022 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds,” (June 2022, .pdf format, 257p.).
“Traditional Medicare Spending Fell Almost 6% in 2020 as Service Use Declined Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” by Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Juliette Cubanski, and Tricia Neuman (June 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 14p.).
“Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, Medicare Spending on Skilled Nursing Facilities Increased More than 4% Despite an Overall Decline in Utilization,” by Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Juliette Cubanski, and Tricia Neuman (June 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 11p.).
A. “State Actions to Address Nursing Home Staffing During COVID-19,” by MaryBeth Musumeci, Emma Childress, and Belle Harris (May 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 12p.).
www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/state-actions-to-address-nursing-home-staffing-during-covid-19/
B. “Medicare-Covered Older Adults Are Satisfied with Their Coverage, Have Similar Access to Care as Privately-Insured Adults Ages 50 to 64, And Fewer Report Cost-Related Problems,” by Nancy Ochieng, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Karyn Schwartz, and Tricia Neuman (May 2022, HTML and .pdf format, 21p.).
“Most Office-Based Physicians Accept New Patients, Including Patients With Medicare and Private Insurance,” by Nancy Ochieng, Matthew Rae, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, and Tricia Neuman (May 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 17p.).
A. “Adverse Events in Hospitals: A Quarter of Medicare Patients Experienced Harm in October 2018,” (OEI-06-18-00400, May 2022, .pdf format, 112p.).
oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/OEI-06-18-00400.asp
B. “National Background Check Program for Long-Term-Care Providers: An Interim Assessment,” (OEI-07-20-00181, May 2022, .pdf format, 28p.).
Age and Ageing (Vol. 51, No. 4, April 2022).
academic.oup.com/ageing/issue/51/4
Health Affairs (Vol. 41, No. 5, May 2022).
“Some Medicare Advantage Organization Denials of Prior Authorization Requests Raise Concerns About Beneficiary Access to Medically Necessary Care,” (OEI-09-18-00260, April 2022, .pdf format, 57p.).
“Help with Medicare Premium and Cost-Sharing Assistance Varies by State,” by Meredith Freed, Juliette Cubanski, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman (April 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 14p.).
– An agenda and transcript of the April 7-8, 2022 meeting is available.
www.medpac.gov/meeting/april-7-8-2022/
Transcript (.pdf format, 366p.):
www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/April2022_MedPAC_meeting_transcript_SEC.pdf
“2023 Medicare Advantage rate book and Prescription Drug rate information,” (March 2022, zipped comma-delimited and Excel format).
www.cms.gov/medicarehealth-plansmedicareadvtgspecratestatsratebooks-and-supporting-data/2023
Health Affairs (Vol. 41, No. 4, April 2022).
www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/41/4
Journals of Gerontology (A): Biological Sciences (Vol. 76A, No. 4, April 2022).
academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/issue/77/4
Journals of Gerontology (B): Psychological Sciences (Vol. 77B, No. 4, April 2022).
academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/issue/77/4
Journal of Women & Aging (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2022).
“Report to Congress: Medicare Payment Policy,” (March 2022, .pdf format, 569p.).
www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Mar22_MedPAC_ReportToCongress_SEC.pdf
“Medicare Part D and Beneficiaries Could Realize Significant Spending Reductions With Increased Biosimilar Use,” (OEI-05-20-00480, March 2022, .pdf format, 33p.).
– An agenda and transcript of the March 3-4, 2022 meeting is available.
www.medpac.gov/meeting/march-3-4-2022/
Transcript (.pdf format, 310p.):
www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/March2022_MedPAC_meeting_transcript_SEC.pdf
“Prescription Drug Price Inflation: An Urgent Need to Lower Drug Prices in Medicare,” a hearing held March 16, 2022 (witness statements available in .pdf format, video of the full hearing available at the site, running time 2 hours 44 minutes). Note: The hearing begins at the 20:49 mark.
“Medicare Part B Drugs: Cost Implications for Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage,” by Juliette Cubanski, Nolan Sroczynski, and Tricia Neuman (March 2022, .pdf and HTML format, 14p.).
“Medicare: Information on Geographic Adjustments to Physician Payments for Physicians’ Time, Skills, and Effort,” (GAO-22-103876, February 2022, .pdf format, 66p.).
Health Affairs (Vol. 41, No. 3, March 2022).
www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/41/3
International Psychogeriatrics (Vol. 34, No. 1, January 2022).
Journal of Aging Studies (Vol. 60, March 2022).
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-aging-studies/vol/60/suppl/C
Journals of Gerontology (A): Biological Sciences (Vol. 76A, No. 3, March 2022).
academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/issue/77/3
Journals of Gerontology (B): Psychological Sciences (Vol. 77B, No. 3, March 2022).
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