Payers are seeing major Medicare Advantage enrollment, and they want to grow more

Becker's Healthcare May 25, 2022
Jakob Emerson

Medicare Advantage enrollment saw major growth across the insurance industry in the first quarter of 2022 and over the last year. Now, payers are making plans to increase that growth even further.

Some groups have estimated that Medicare Advantage plans will be the dominant source of Medicare by 2025.

From Centene expanding its Medicare Advantage plans into three new states since January to UnitedHealthcare pushing to add 800,000 more members by the end of this year, below are the big payers ranked by Medicare Advantage growth year over year and how they’re planning to increase membership even more.

Anthem — 24.9 percent

As of March 31, 2022: 1,921,000 members

As of March 31, 2021: 1,538,000 members

Anthem’s 1.4 million...