Implications of Variation in the Relationships between Beneficiary Characteristics and Medicare Advantage CAHPS Measures

To study how differences in quality score adjustments across Medicare Advantage contracts change comparisons for individuals and contracts.Responses to the Medicare Advantage implementation of the Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey from 2010 to 2014.We fit national-and state-level hierarchical models to predict CAHPS scores for individuals and contracts, adjusted for self-reported education, general health,...