Inpatient Prices In Medicare Advantage Vary Modestly Across And Within Hospitals
Medicare Advantage (MA) provider prices are, on average, similar to those of traditional Medicare; however, prices may vary across hospitals or insurers. Using national data, we found that MA prices averaged 97 percent of traditional Medicare prices. Although only 39 percent of hospitals in our sample had average inpatient MA prices within 5 percent of traditional Medicare prices, MA prices varied far less than commercial or Medicaid prices.
Authors
- David J. Meyers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4081-1751)
- Geronimo Bejarano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-4132)
- Mark Katz Meiselbach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3583-5588)
- Erin E. Trish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8736-7862)
- Grace Mackleby
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- John Brown University (US)
- Brown University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Health Affairs
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00408
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00