Medicine Grand Rounds - How Medicare Advantage is Shaping the Care of Older Adults with Serious Illness



Date & Location
Friday, March 18, 2022, 8:00 AM - Monday, March 17, 2025, 9:00 AM

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Overview

Participants in Medicine Grand Rounds will be able to identify and apply the most current treatment guidelines and standards of practice to provide optimal patient care, incorporating the principles of health equity, evidence-based medicine, and innovation to achieve clinical quality and safety goals. 

Presenter
Claire K. Ankuda, MD, MPH, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

About our Presenter
Dr. Claire Ankuda earned an MD from the University of Vermont and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health before going to the University of Washington for family medicine residency, then to the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. She completed a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at Mount Sinai. 

Dr. Ankuda is a health services researcher who aims to assess the impact of Medicare payment policies and health systems on outcomes for seriously ill older adults and their families. She is particularly interested in Medicare Advantage and hospice policy and how they shape the care of older adults at the end of life. 

Learning Outcome
Participants will be able to compare differences in the structures, incentives and potential changes of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans vs. traditional Medicare (TM), including the potential benefits and disadvantages around MA for older adults with serious illness and contemplating hospice care. 

Disclosure
The following activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this activity have reported the following financial relationship(s)* with ineligible company(ies)**. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Richard Rothstein, MD ~ has Research Support from Fractyl, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.

* A “financial relationship" includes employee, researcher (named as the PI), consultant, advisor, speaker, independent contractor (including contracted research), royalties or patent beneficiary, executive role, and/or an ownership interest (not including stocks owned in a managed portfolio).

** An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Bibliographic Material
Please see recording for Bibliographic references.


Accreditation

Dartmouth Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Dartmouth Health designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

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Provider Contact Information
Provider contact information for questions regarding accreditation of the activity:

Center for Learning and Professional Development
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