Enrollment Patterns of Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries by Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefits.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Most Medicare beneficiaries now choose to enroll in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Racial and ethnic minority group and low-income beneficiaries are increasingly enrolling in MA plans.

Objective

To examine whether dental, vision, and hearing supplemental benefits offered in MA plans are associated with the plan choices of traditionally underserved Medicare beneficiaries.

Design, setting, and participants

This exploratory observational cross-sectional study used data from the 2018 to 2020 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey linked to MA plan benefits. The nationally representative sample comprised primarily community-dwelling MA beneficiaries enrolled in general enrollment MA plans. Data analysis was performed between April and October 2023.

Exposures

SUBMITTER: Gupta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10787318 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature