Health Affairs February 28, 2022
Publisher’s note: This post is paid for and provided by Better Medicare Alliance. The views expressed by the authors are their own.
Ask a Medicare beneficiary – and even some policymakers – about their awareness of Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans (SNPs) and you might get a puzzled look. After all, nearly half of all seniors on Medicare were unaware of the basic option of Medicare Advantage at their first open enrollment period.
It is unsurprising, then, that awareness of this specific type of Medicare Advantage product – which was only enacted within the last 20 years and not permanently authorized until 2018 – would still be emerging.
What SNPs lack in familiarity, however, they more than compensate for...
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