Medicare Beneficiaries

A large subset of senior Medicare beneficiaries with debilitating chronic pain have trouble accessing care, or are delaying care, according to CMS survey results released Wednesday.

Medicare Advantage plans will be more incentivized to address gaps in care if consumer care assessments include more input from enrollees with dementia, investigators say.

Fee-for-service Medicare admissions have increased steadily in highly specialized post-acute care facilities, leaving some groups out of the picture, investigators say.

Cardiac rehab participation rose among Medicare recipients with heart failure after coverage expansion in 2014, but the numbers remain abysmally low at less than 10%, a new study has found.

The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has resulted in hundreds of thousands of saved lives and fewer hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries overall, according to new data from January through May.

Investigators found that people of Black and Asian or Pacific Islander race, Hispanic ethnicity, with public insurance status, and who were admitted to an urban teaching hospital were more likely to receive...

The coronavirus pandemic’s “devastating impact” on nursing homes led to a 32% spike in overall mortality rate among Medicare residents during 2020, according to a new report by the Office of Inspector...

Assisted living residents had 17% higher rates of overall mortality in 2020 compared with the year prior, CMS data show. That’s in line with the experience of nursing homes, and is likely an underestimate,...

Medicare’s dementia claim measures appear to have become more sensitive in recent years, agreeing more closely with hospital-based measures overall and for certain populations than in the past, investigators...

The 15,000-facility study is the first of its kind, researchers say. Infections were found to be associated with geographic area and specific facility, whereas resident characteristics played a large role...