Healthcare Finance News September 7, 2023
The timing of this switching has implications for how to measure growth in risk scores for new MA beneficiaries.
Medicare Advantage has steadily grown in popularity and now covers slightly more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries, and one of the drivers of this growth has been people switching from traditional Medicare, especially younger and healthier patients, a Health Affairs study has found.
Switching from fee-for-service Medicare to MA more than tripled between 2006 and 2022, whereas switching from MA to fee-for-service Medicare decreased, a trend that started to gain steam around 2019.
The share of switchers among all new MA enrollees rose from 61% in 2011 to 80% in 2022. Black, dual-eligible and disabled beneficiaries had higher odds of...
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