Which Medicare Advantage Enrollees Are at Highest One-Year Mortality Risk?
Medicare Advantage enrollees over age 85, in fair or poor health or with recent urgent care needs, are far more likely to be in a high mortality risk group.
Rebecca Anhang Price is a senior policy researcher at RAND. Her research focuses on evaluating and promoting quality of care for individuals with serious illness, including those enrolled in hospice. She currently leads work funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and foundations to support national implementation of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey; assess the hospice component of the Value-Based Insurance Design model; and develop measures of care quality for the seriously ill. She received her Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University.
Ph.D. in health policy, Harvard University; M.S. in health policy and management, Harvard University; B.A. in communications, University of Pennsylvania