When I Turn 65, I Really Want to Sign Up for a Medicare Advantage Plan, but Here's Why I Won't

When you enroll, you have to select either original Medicare, which features Part A (hospital coverage) and Part B (physician ...
Health Affairs

Podcast: Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: What We've Learned

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Beyers. We're recording on 06/12/2025. As a quick note, I know I've talked about the Insider Program a lot. We have a couple of ...
Health Affairs

Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: Origins, Evolution, And Issues For Policy Making

This article is the first in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...
STAT

Medicare Advantage’s supplemental benefits will cost taxpayers $86 billion this year, with little transparency

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. Taxpayers will send an estimated $86 billion to Medicare Advantage insurers this year to pay for ...
Opinion

Medicare Advantage In Transition: What The Pullback In Supplemental Benefits Means For Agents

For years, extra perks in Medicare Advantage (MA) caught people's attention. Dental care, grocery cards and gym memberships made plans feel generous and easy to sell. But over the ...

Medicare Advantage is covering more and more Americans − some because they don’t get to choose

Compared with traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans are, on average, paid more by the taxpayer-funded Medicare system for covering each enrollee. Advantage plans also have more flexibility to ...
Morningstar

New Survey Offers Important Insights into How Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Use and Value Their Supplemental Benefits

A recent study conducted by Humana Healthcare Research, with strategic input from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals key insights into how Medicare Advantage beneficiaries perceive ...
Benzinga.com

STAT+: Medicare Advantage's supplemental benefits will cost taxpayers $86 billion this year, with little transparency

Taxpayers will send an estimated $86 billion to Medicare Advantage insurers this year to pay for supplemental benefits for their members, or 17% of total payments to those plans. But how that money is ...