Comparison of Performance of Traditional Medicare vs Medicare Managed Care

Effects of Mass Media Coverage on Timing and Annual Receipt of Influenza Vaccination among Medicare Elderly

“…The results of other control variables were consistent with the literature (Schneider et al 2001; Landon et al 2004; Yoo and Frick 2005; O'Malley and Forrest 2006). For example, vaccination rates were positively associated with having received influenza vaccination in the prior season, having ever received pneumococcal vaccination, being white, and having Medigap insurance.…”

Understanding Variations in Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Scores: California as an Example

“…Both sectors were below average for physician services, but more so for California MA. These results are consistent with findings from other studies that found variations in performance across different quality measures (Miller and Luft 2002;Landon et al 2004;Gillies et al 2006). These differences were not unexpected because the two health care models are quite different.…”

How Do the Experiences of Medicare Beneficiary Subgroups Differ between Managed Care and Original Medicare?

“…Unlike Landon et al (2004) 3 , who found that FFS scored higher in the aggregate than MA on all measures except immunization, our case‐mix adjusted findings present a much more mixed picture, with MA outperforming FFS on five measures and FFS outperforming MA on three measures. We note that Landon and colleagues analysis did not include prescription drug measures (which did not exist in 2004)—which account for three of the five instances of MA outperforming FFS, consistent with findings from Neuman et al (2007) regarding higher beneficiary ratings for MA plans in the area of prescription drugs.…”