Monday, June 15, 2020

Study: The more rural you are, the less likely you are to be satisfied with Medicare quality, access, and affordability

The more rural someone is, the more likely they are to be dissatisfied with Medicare, says a recently published study in The Journal of Rural Health.

Researchers in the Rural Health Research Center at the University of Minnesota's studied data from the 2016 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which measured respondents' satisfaction with nine different measures related to Medicare quality, access, and/or affordability. The study had more than 10,000 respondents nationwide.

In most measures, satisfaction with Medicare decreased with increasing rurality after adjusting for other socio-demographic and health characteristics. "These findings may have implications for access to and quality of care that rural Medicare beneficiaries receive and their subsequent health outcomes," the researchers write. Read more here.

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