Health Care Contact Days, Care Experience, and Out-of-Pocket Spending Among Traditional Medicare Patients

Nicholas E Daley; E John Orav; Ishani Ganguli

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.8517

Health Care Contact Days, Care Experience, and Out-of-Pocket Spending Among Traditional Medicare Patients

JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 1;185(5):600-602. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.8517.

Authors

Nicholas E Daley¹, E John Orav^{1

2}, Ishani Ganguli^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Associate Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine.

PMID: 40094648
PMCID: PMC11915109 (available on 2026-03-17)
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.8517

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines the level of satisfaction in care, ease of managing care, and out-of-pocket expenses among patients enrolled in traditional Medicare.