About the Authors
- Christopher Whaley
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* E-mail: cwhaley@berkeley.edu
Affiliations School of Public Health, U.C. Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, United States of America
- Mary Reed
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Affiliation Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, United States of America
- John Hsu
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Affiliations Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Vicki Fung
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Affiliations Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
Competing Interests
Christopher Whaley and Mary Reed are employed by Kaiser Permanente, which offers Medicare Advantage plans in which Medicare beneficiaries could enroll. John Hsu and Vicki Fung are employed by Massachusetts General Hospital, which contracts with Medicare to provide medical care to beneficiaries. John Hsu has served as a consultant to Commonwealth Care Alliance and to Kaiser Permanente, both of which provide care to Medicare beneficiaries.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MR JH VF. Performed the experiments: MR JH VF. Analyzed the data: CW VF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW MR JH VF. Wrote the paper: CW MR JH VF.