County-Level Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Plans Offering Expanded Supplemental Benefits.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Since 2019 and 2020, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have been able to offer supplemental benefits that address long-term services and supports (LTSS) and social determinants of health (SDOH).

Objective

To examine the temporal trends and geographic variation in enrollment in MA plans offering LTSS and SDOH benefits.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used publicly available data to examine changes in beneficiary enrollment and plan offerings of LTSS and SDOH benefits from the benefits data from the second quarter of each year and other data from April of each year except 2024, for which the first quarter was the latest for benefits data and January the latest for other data at the time of analysis. Multivariable linear regression mod

SUBMITTER: Yang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409149 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature