Recent Findings from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Has Provided New Information about Insurance (Turnover Among New Medicare Advantage Enrollees May Be Greater Than Perceived): Insurance

2022 NOV 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Researchers detail new data in Insurance. According to news originating from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To characterize the proportion of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees who switched insurers or disenrolled to traditional Medicare ™ in the years immediately after first choosing to join an MA health plan. Retrospective analysis using 2012-2017 Medicare enrollment data.”

Financial support for this research came from NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, “We studied enrollees who joined MA between 2012 and 2016 and identified all enrollees who changed insurers (switched insurance or disenrolled to TM) at least once between the start of enrollment and the end of the study period. We categorized each change as switching insurers or disenrollment to TM, and by whether the previous insurer had exited the market.Among 6,520,169 new MA enrollees, 15.6% had changed insurance within 1 year after enrollment in MA and 49.2% had changed insurance by 5 years. More enrollees switched insurers rather than disenrolled, and most enrollees who changed insurers did not do so as a result of insurer exits.New MA enrollees change insurers at a substantial rate when followed across multiple years.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These changes may disincentivize insurers from investing in preventive care and chronic disease management and, as shown in several non-MA populations, may lead to discontinuities in care, increased expenditures, and inferior health outcomes.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Turnover Among New Medicare Advantage Enrollees May Be Greater Than Perceived. The American Journal of Managed Care, 2022;28(10). The American Journal of Managed Care can be contacted at: Managed Care & Healthcare Communications Llc, 666 Plainsboro Rd, Ste 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Bruce E. Landon, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dept. of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Jeffrey Dong, Alan M. Zaslavsky and John Z. Ayanian.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2022.89251. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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