For 2024, Select MAOs Target More Social Needs, Enhance D-SNP Offerings

With the Oct. 1 start of marketing for the 2024 Annual Election Period (AEP), several major publicly traded insurers have unveiled somewhat slower plans for geographic expansion than in previous years, while CMS’s 2024 MA and Part D landscape files suggest that premium increases were a common way to offset potential rate cuts. But according to recent press releases unveiling product enhancements for next year, insurers appear to be extending enhanced supplemental benefits to the broader MA population while offering Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) beneficiaries greater flexibility to address nonmedical needs.

© 2023 MMIT
Lauren Flynn Kelly

Lauren Flynn Kelly Managing Editor, Radar on Medicare Advantage

Lauren has been covering health business issues, including drug benefits and specialty pharmacy, for more than a decade. She served as editor of Drug Benefit News (the predecessor to Radar on Drug Benefits) from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2011 to 2016, and now manages Radar on Medicare Advantage. Lauren graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in English.

Related Posts

meal-delivery
September 21

Alignment Health: Seniors’ Top Social Barriers to Health Offer Benefit Design Opportunities

READ MORE
patient-receiving-transportation
August 17

Elevance Adds to Research Showing Supplemental Benefits Are Crucial for Duals

READ MORE
close-up-of-hand-dropping-a-coin-into-a-piggy-bank
June 15

MA Benefit Innovation May Slow Down Amid 2024 Rate Uncertainty

READ MORE

GAIN THERAPEUTIC AREA-SPECIFIC INTEL TO DRIVE ACCESS FOR YOUR BRAND

Sign up for publications to get unmatched business intelligence delivered to your inbox.

subscribe today