Table 3. Preventive Care Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Low Income Covered by Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare.
| Outcome | Beneficiaries, % (95% CI) | Odds ratio (95% CI)a | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicare Advantage | Traditional Medicare | Unadjusted | Adjustedb | ||
| Recent diabetes screening | 90.6 (88.5-92.7) | 87.6 (85.7-89.6) | 1.35 (1.01-1.82) | 1.21 (0.87-1.66) | .26 |
| Recent blood pressure screening | 96.8 (95.6-97.9) | 95.2 (94.1-96.4) | 1.50 (0.96-2.33) | 1.37 (0.84-2.23) | .21 |
| Recent cholesterol screening | 98.7 (98.0-99.4) | 96.6 (95.5-97.7) | 2.76 (1.48-5.16) | 2.58 (1.27-5.22) | .009 |
| Received influenza vaccination in past year | 66.3 (62.5-70.2) | 63.8 (60.8-66.8) | 1.12 (0.90-1.38) | 1.16 (0.93-1.45) | .18 |
a
Presented with traditional Medicare as the reference group.
b
Adjusted for patient demographic characteristics (age, sex, education, and race and ethnicity), self-reported clinical comorbid conditions (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, history of myocardial infarction, history of stroke, history of cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, dementia, asthma, and arthritis), and geography (region and rurality).