Senior Housing News March 5, 2020
About 30% of assisted living residents are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, which is just slightly lower than the roughly 34% of seniors living in private housing who are enrolled in MA.
Nearly the same percentage of independent living residents — almost 31% — are Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, according to a new data analysis released Wednesday at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) spring conference in San Diego. The analysis was done by ATI Advisory, which utilized the 2017 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The findings surprised the ATI Advisory researchers, firm founder Anne Tumlinson said during...