KFF September 18, 2023

Every Medicare open enrollment season, health insurers, brokers and other third parties use a blitz of TV ads to attract enrollees to Medicare Advantage plans from among the 65 million people with Medicare. We watched more than a thousand ads and conducted focus groups to better understand the marketing effort and its impact on beneficiaries.

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An Analysis of TV Ads From the Open Enrollment Period

Our review of more than 1,267 unique TV ads identified a variety of marketing tactics behind the ads, including a heavy reliance on celebrity endorsers, the liberal use of images of government-issued Medicare cards and what appear to be...

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