Becker's Healthcare December 9, 2024
Rylee Wilson

Medicare spends more on beneficiaries who switch from Medicare Advantage to traditional Medicare compared to those who remained enrolled in traditional Medicare, a report from KFF found.

The report, published Dec. 6, compared spending for beneficiaries who switched from Medicare Advantage in 2021 to traditional Medicare in 2022 with spending for those continuously enrolled in traditional Medicare.

The report, “raises a lot of questions” as to why enrollees leave Medicare Advantage plans, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, associate director of the program on Medicare at KFF and an author of the study, told the Wall Street Journal.

“Were they not getting the medical care they needed in Medicare Advantage?,” Ms. Biniek said.

An investigation published in the Wall Street...

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