Is the MA Boom Over? 2024 AEP Results Reflect Continued Slowdown

Medicare Advantage growth is slowing down after a pandemic-era windfall, according to AIS Health’s analysis of the 2024 Annual Election Period (AEP). As of February — when then the final AEP data is reported — total MA enrollment was approaching 33 million lives (AIS’s collection of AEP data excludes some Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles; see note below). That’s a 4.0% increase from October 2023, when the AEP began, and down from 4.6% during the same time period last year and a high of 6.8% in 2021. CMS previously projected that MA enrollment would increase by roughly 7% to 33.8 million this year; the AIS Health analysis shows that MA enrollment grew 7.1% from a year ago.

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Carina Belles

Carina Belles

Carina has been covering public-sector health care since 2018. As a data reporter for Radar on Medicare Advantage, she creates infographics and data stories on issues impacting Medicare, Medicaid and Part D. She also develops AIS Health Daily, a free daily newsletter that showcases AIS’s strong reporting across our four publications and parent company Norstella’s suite of market access and data solutions. Prior to joining the editorial team, she managed Medicare and Medicaid data for the Directory of Health Plans, AIS’s industry-standard health coverage database. She graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. in Journalism.

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