4sight Health August 17, 2022
When people talk about Medicare Advantage, all they ever seem to want to talk about is the continuing explosion in enrollment. Well, that and how MA plans exaggerate how sick their enrollees are to weasel higher payment rates from CMS. But that’s another blog post.
Today we’re talking about enrollment, right? OK.
I looked up the latest enrollment data, and according to CMS, there were about 29.3 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in privately-run MA plans in August 2022. That’s up 8.4 percent from a little less than 27 million beneficiaries in August 2021. You can look up the data for yourself here.
The question is, where do all these new MA enrollees keep coming from? Now, one guess might be...
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