Medicare Savings Program Take-Up Estimates and Profile of Enrolled and Unenrolled Individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medicare enrollees with low income report challenges affording out-of-pocket costs for health care. Although the Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) were established to provide financial support, recent patterns in program take-up are understudied.

Objectives

To provide national and state-level estimates of take-up of the MSPs from 2018 to 2020 and describe the profile of enrolled and unenrolled individuals eligible for the MSPs.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional analysis used data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), a nationally representative survey of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries. Respondents from 2018 to 2020 who completed the income and assets questionnaire, which allowed assessment of MSP eligibility, we

SUBMITTER: Kotb S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12495494 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature