Quality Assessments by Sick and Healthy Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Managed Care

Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services pays for services provided through traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare and managed care plans (Medicare Advantage [MA]). It is important to understand how financing and organizational arrangements relate to quality of care. Objectives: To compare care experiences and preventive services receipt in traditional Medicare and MA for healthy and sick beneficiaries. Methods: Randomly...