Medicare Advantage (MA) is the private plan option in the Medicare program. Enrollment in the program has surged in the past decade and now tops 30 million — nearly half of all Medicare enrollees.

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 ...

Differential coding by Medicare Advantage plans appeared to have pushed their risk scores higher than traditional Medicare's scores. Those greater risk scores led to $33 billion in extra revenue for ...

After evaluating the association between the expanded Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits and plan composition, authors determined that adoption was not associated with large demographic shifts ...

MA enrollees have similar utilization rates of dental, vision, and hearing benefits as TM beneficiaries, despite broader coverage in MA plans. Low awareness of coverage and significant out-of-pocket ...

This is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

Use them or lose them: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just proposed vacating a rule that would have alerted beneficiaries about their unused benefits Three in 10 Medicare Advantage ...

One in six Medicare beneficiaries had a telehealth visit from 2021 to 2023, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. “Telehealth has become much more common post-[COVID-19] ...

A new study of nearly 20,000 Medicare beneficiaries reveals a striking gap in hearing health care, with approximately 90% of those reporting hearing difficulties going without hearing aids. The ...

Your Medicare Benefit Period begins when you enter a hospital or skilled nursing facility and ends when you've been out for 60 days. The Medicare Benefit Period is the timeframe used to calculate your ...