Health Affairs February 14, 2025
Andrew Anderson, Andrew Higgins, Sachin H. Jain, Mark Meiselbach, Kali S. Thomas

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.

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