Rural enrollment in Medicare advantage is concentrated in private fee-for-service plans

Timothy D McBride; Tanchica L Terry; Keith J Mueller

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Rural enrollment in Medicare advantage is concentrated in private fee-for-service plans

Timothy D McBride, Tanchica L Terry and Keith J Mueller

Rural policy brief, Vol.12(2 (PB2007-2)), pp.1-4

04/01/2007

PMID: 17450667

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Abstract

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans more than doubled in rural areas in 2006, the first year of the MA program. However, rural enrollment remains well below urban enrollment as a percentage of the eligible population. This policy brief provides findings about enrollment in the newly designed MA program in rural and urban areas across the United States and updates previous findings published in RUPRI Center policy briefs. Analysis of rural-urban differences in costs to beneficiaries that compares type of plan will be released in a policy brief in June 2007.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.)

Eligibility Determination

Fee-for-Service Plans - economics

Fee-for-Service Plans - trends

Humans

Insurance Coverage - trends

Managed Care Programs - economics

Managed Care Programs - trends

Medicare - organization & administration

Medicare - statistics & numerical data

Preferred Provider Organizations - statistics & numerical data

Preferred Provider Organizations - trends

Privatization - economics

Privatization - trends

Rural Population

State Government

United States

Urban Population

Details

Title: Subtitle: Rural enrollment in Medicare advantage is concentrated in private fee-for-service plans
Creators: Timothy D McBride
Tanchica L Terry
Keith J Mueller
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Rural policy brief, Vol.12(2 (PB2007-2)), pp.1-4
PMID: 17450667
eISSN: 2152-0267
Language: English
Date published: 04/01/2007
Academic Unit: Health Management and Policy; Public Policy Center (Archive)
Record Identifier: 9984221748602771

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