Financial Hardship Among Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Enrollees With and Without Food Insecurity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compared to traditional Medicare (TM), Medicare Advantage (MA) plans impose out-of-pocket cost limits and offer extra benefits, potentially providing financial relief for MA enrollees, especially for those with food insecurity.

Objective

To examine whether the prevalence of food insecurity differs between TM and MA enrollees at baseline and then examine whether MA enrollment in a baseline year is associated with less financial hardships in the following year, relative to TM enrollment, especially for those experiencing food insecurity.

Design

We conducted a retrospective longitudinal cohort study.

Participants

Our analysis included 2807 Medicare beneficiaries (weighted sample size, 23,963,947) who maintained continuous enrollment in either TM or MA i

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436696 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature