Analysis of Drivers of Disenrollment and Plan Switching Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

How often enrollees with complex care needs leave the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and what might drive their decisions remain unknown.

Objective

To characterize trends in switching to and from MA among high-need beneficiaries and to evaluate the drivers of disenrollment decisions.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study of MA and traditional Medicare (TM) enrollees from January 1, 2014, through December 31, 2015, used a multinomial logit regression stratified by Medicare-Medicaid eligibility status. All 14 589 645 non-high-need MA enrollees and 1 302 470 high-need enrollees in the United States who survived until the end of 2014 were eligible for the analysis. Data were analyzed from November 1, 2017, through August 1, 2018.

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SUBMITTER: Meyers DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6450306 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature