L.E.K. June 18, 2019
Executive Insights
Over the past 25 years, Medicare Advantage (MA) has consistently penetrated the Medicare marketplace. While its penetration growth has been notably measured in the past 10 years, rising just 1.5 percentage points annually, L.E.K. Consulting doesn’t expect it to stop anytime soon. In fact, our proprietary county-level projection model shows that as seniors seek to secure better management of their care but pay less, Medicare Advantage penetration will continue to rise — to as high as 70%.
When we published our first Executive Insights in this series in 2017, the Trump administration was still in its first year and the future of the ACA was a topic of frequent debate. Today, the status and long-term structure of healthcare...