Complex Patients and Quality of Care in Medicare Advantage.
Eva H DuGoffCynthia BoydGerard AndersonPublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2019)
MA contracts with a high concentration of complex patients have lower performance scores on more than half of Part C measures. Further study is needed to understand whether these performance measures are capturing the delivery of poor care, deficiencies in the health plan's care systems, or whether some measures may not be appropriate for complex patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 68:395-402, 2020.