Validation of Medicare Advantage Claims for Long-Term Outcome Assessment in Low-Risk Aortic Valve Replacement
Medicare claims have a similar level of kappa agreement in MA versus FFS for most covariates and outcomes. As patients shift to MA, ascertainment of outcomes using Medicare claims in postapproval studies remains valid for select outcomes.
Authors
- Jordan B. Strom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6592-6141)
- Andrew S. Oseran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5810-5927)
- Neel M. Butala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6937-4041)
- Rishi K. Wadhera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1089-3896)
- Dhruv S. Kazi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9510-2979)
- Liang Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9274-1866)
- Christina Lalani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7340-8111)
- Robert W. Yeh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0564-4468)
- David Jonathan Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9163-724X)
- Yang Song (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8052-8395)
- Frank Medina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1992-5892)
Institutions
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- St. Francis Hospital (US)
- St. Francis Hospital (US)
- Cardiovascular Research Foundation (US)
- Rocky Mountain MS Center (US)
- St. Francis Hospital (US)
- Deaconess Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
- Published
- 2025-03-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circoutcomes.125.011991
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00