New from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis Medicare Advantage Enrollment Update 2024

This policy brief continues RUPRI Center’s annual update of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment including the changes in enrollment in types of MA plans, and health policy changes that may have had an impact.

Key Findings:

• Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment now exceeds 50 percent of eligible beneficiaries (enrolled in both Part A and Part B) in metropolitan counties (56.1 percent); at the current rate of growth, nonmetropolitan enrollment is expected to exceed 50 percent (currently 48.1 percent) next year, in 2025.
• While the annual rate of MA growth continues to exceed the rate of growth in total Medicare eligible beneficiaries, it has moderated somewhat from previous years.
• Much of the growth in nonmetropolitan MA enrollment has been in plans using local preferred provider organizations (PPOs), accounting for a majority of MA enrollees in nonmetropolitan counties since 2022.

Click here to read the full brief.

Additional products:

• Medicare Advantage Enrollment Updates: https://ruprihealth.org/maupdates/enrollment.html
• Medicare Advantage, National and State Enrollment Tables and Maps: https://ruprihealth.org/maupdates/nstablesmaps.html

Authors: Fred Ullrich, BA; and Keith Mueller, PhD

For more information, contact:

Keith J. Mueller, PhD; ke***********@***wa.edu
Director, RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
University of Iowa College of Public Health
Office: 1.319.384.3832

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