Medicare Advantage membership grows almost 8%

Healthcare DIVE January 30, 2018
Les Masterson

Dive Brief:

Medicare Advantage ended 2017 with nearly 21 million enrollees, a nearly 8% increase over the figure from the previous year, reported Axios. However, there are still only a handful of payers that dominate the MA market.
The top MA payer, UnitedHealth Group, increased membership 14% to 5.24 million members and Humana remained in second with 3.51 million members, a membership increase of 7%. Aetna’s MA enrollees jumped 21% to 1.71 million members.
In other MA news, the CMS released a report that showed online provider directory errors remain a problem.

Dive Insight:

MA remains popular with both the Medicare population and payers and now accounts for about one-third of Medicare patients.

Though payers are looking to...