Medicare Managed Care Is On The Increase – At Consumer Request

For years, the adage has been that only “payers” (employers, Medicaid, etc.) want managed care – and they wanted it to reduce costs. And, without saying it, the implication has been that moving to managed care is not something that consumers want.

But the Medicare data flies in the face of this adage. The recent data show that for Medicare managed care – the Medicare Advantage plans – enrollment increased by 1.34 million members over the past year (as of February 2017), with total Medicare Advantage enrollment of 19.5 million, or about 34% of the 58 million Medicare beneficiaries (see Medicare . . .