COVID-19 Posed New Challenges for 2021 MA, Part D Bids

There are always uncertainties when it comes to projecting plan costs for the year ahead, but Medicare Advantage and Part D organizations in the most recent bid cycle faced a particularly unpredictable set of circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I think we will all look back on the 2021 bids as the year of COVID-19,” says Brad Piper, a principal and consulting actuary in Milliman’s Milwaukee office, who is fresh off helping clients prepare bids that were due June 1. “That was a big challenge for the organizations that are in the Medicare Advantage program — [perhaps more so] than on the Part D side — and it impacted both sides of the coin: costs and revenue.”

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