Fierce Health Payers September 8, 2020
Medicare Advantage plans serve beneficiaries with more social risk factors such as low incomes and food insecurity than traditional Medicare, a new report finds.
The report, published Tuesday by advocacy group Better Medicare Alliance, looks at the role of social determinants of health in traditional Medicare and the MA program. It concludes that MA plans are well positioned to tackle social determinants of health and the federal government should take that into account.
This report shows that MA is the choice for increasing numbers of enrollees with significant risk factors,” said Allyson Schwartz, president and CEO of the Better Medicare Alliance, in a statement.
The report, conducted by research firm ATI Advisory, looks at results from the 2017 Medicare beneficiary...
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