Medicare Advantage enrollment update: 2019
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Rural policy brief
- Author(s):
- Ali, Abdinasir K., author Ullrich, Fred, author Mueller, Keith, author
- Contributor(s):
- RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, issuing body. Rural Health Research & Policy Centers, issuing body. Rural Policy Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.
- Publication:
- Iowa City, IA : Rural Policy Research Institute, October 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Medicare Part C -- statistics & numerical data Medicare Part C -- trends Fee-for-Service Plans -- trends Health Maintenance Organizations -- trends Preferred Provider Organizations -- trends Rural Population Urban Population United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- This policy brief continues the RUPRI Center's annual series of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment updates. In addition to tracking overall and metropolitan/nonmetropolitan enrollment, this brief also reports on changes in enrollment in types of MA plans. The Center's ongoing line of inquiry also considers policy changes from previous years that may have impacted MA plan enrollment. Key Findings. (1) MA enrollment has grown steadily for more than 10 years, but in both 2018 and 2019 the growth in proportion of nonmetropolitan county enrollment (1.1 percent and 1.0 percent, respectively) has outpaced that of metropolitan county enrollment (0.7 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively). (2) Local preferred provider organization (PPO) plans held the highest share of MA enrollment (45.2 percent) in nonmetropolitan counties. They were also the only type of plan to see significant growth in proportion of metropolitan MA enrollees since 2009 (from 8.1 percent to 29.0 percent). (3) Nonmetropolitan enrollment in health maintenance organization (HMO) plans has grown steadily as a share of total MA enrollment since 2009 and accounted for 32.7 percent of that population's MA participation in 2019. The share of enrollment in HMO plans is much higher in metropolitan counties (65.0 percent in 2019), but the rate of growth in that population's enrollment has been nearly flat since 2009.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (6 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918350988306676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918350988306676