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This effect may vary across plans depending on provider integration, administrative capacity, and geographic context, with implications for payments and potential \u201cupcoding.\u201d<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using 100% Medicare data from 2016\u20132021, we estimated event study and difference-in-differences models comparing adjusted trends in incident ADRD diagnoses in MA relative to traditional Medicare before and after the policy change.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Incident dementia diagnoses increased in MA relative to traditional Medicare, despite an overall downward trend in diagnosis rates. Increases were larger among enrollees in MA health maintenance organization plans (20.8%) than in preferred provider organization plans (7.6%) and varied across insurers, ranging from 7.2% (United Healthcare) to 21.6% (Kaiser Permanente). Increases were more pronounced in urban than in rural areas.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Reintroducing ADRD into the MA risk-adjustment model was associated with increased diagnostic coding, with substantial variation across plan types, insurers, and geographic contexts. Because ADRD diagnoses increase risk-adjusted payments, larger increases across some plans may reflect coding practices rather than true disease prevalence, highlighting the need for closer monitoring.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/haschl\/qxag167","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,27]],"date-time":"2026-06-27T17:20:35Z","timestamp":1782580835000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Heterogeneous responses to risk-adjustment reform: evidence from dementia diagnosis in Medicare Advantage"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"4","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2189-1469","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sidra","family":"Haye","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, CA 90089 ,","place":["United States"]},{"name":"Leonard D. 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