Health Affairs April 3, 2025
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of informing the rapidly changing policy landscape on this topic. Additional articles will be published through mid-2025. Readers are encouraged to review the Call For Submissions for this series. We are grateful to The SCAN Foundation for its support of this work.
The Medicare Advantage (MA) payment system was designed with the intent to incentivize plans to deliver Medicare benefits at a lower cost than Traditional Medicare, a key feature being the ability of plans to keep some of those savings and apply them to additional benefits. Specifically, MA plans bid...