Health Payer Intelligence February 8, 2021
More Medicare Advantage members with chronic diseases have access to food-related benefits from their health plan in 2021 than in 2020.
In 2021, the number of Medicare Advantage members who enrolled in plans with additional supplemental benefits for members who have chronic diseases spiked dramatically, Avalere researchers found in a recent report.
Avalere used Q2 2021 and 2020 Plan Benefit Package files from CMS as well as enrollment Public Use Files for the first month of 2021 and 2020. That data includes non-employer waiver group plans across the country with eleven enrollees or more.
Forty-four parent organizations provided special supplemental benefits for the chronically ill through 787 Medicare Advantage plans. Accordingly, 15 percent of non-employer Medicare Advantage plan members were...