Health Affairs February 14, 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.
As the Medicare Advantage (MA) market has continued to grow and MA plans are seeking new vehicles for growth, MA plans are increasingly launching products that are tailored to people of a specific race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. These plans are commonly referred to as “affinity plans.” Examples...