Medigap Reforms: Potential Effects of Benefit Restrictions on Medicare...
As part of several debt-reduction and Medicare-reform proposals, some policymakers propose to prohibit Medicare supplemental insurance policies (known as Medigap) from covering all of enrollees’...
View ArticleMedigap: Spotlight on Enrollment, Premiums and Recent Trends
Medicare supplemental insurance, also known as “Medigap,” is an important source of supplemental coverage for nearly one in four people on Medicare. Traditional Medicare has cost-sharing requirements...
View ArticleStreamlining Cost Sharing in Medicare: The Impact on Beneficiaries
This July 22, 2013 briefing, Streamlining Cost Sharing in Medicare: The Impact on Beneficiaries, explored the impact on beneficiaries of recent proposals to combine the two main parts of Medicare.
View ArticleMedigap Reform: Setting the Context for Understanding Recent Proposals
This brief presents the most current data available on the Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap) market, including enrollment and premiums by state and plan type, analyzes how many beneficiaries...
View ArticleMedigap Enrollment Among New Medicare Beneficiaries: How Many 65-Year Olds...
On March 26, 2015, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which would replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, among other...
View ArticleMedigap and the Medicare “Doc Fix”
The House-passed legislation to repeal the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) includes a provision that would prohibit Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap) policies from covering the Part B...
View ArticleTraditional Medicare…Disadvantaged?
In this new policy insight, Tricia Neuman examines current rules that may discourage seniors from switching from Medicare Advantage to traditional Medicare. The issue is explored through the lens of a...
View ArticlePolicy Insight Examines How Current Rules May Deter Seniors From Switching...
In this new policy insight, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Tricia Neuman examines current rules that may discourage seniors from switching from Medicare Advantage to traditional Medicare.Traditional...
View ArticleModifying Medicare’s Benefit Design: What’s the Impact on Beneficiaries and...
This report examines an approach to reforming Medicare that has been a focus of Congressional hearings and featured in several broader debt reduction and entitlement reform proposals, and was included...
View ArticleModifying Traditional Medicare’s Benefit Design Could Reduce Federal Spending...
Revamping traditional Medicare’s benefit design and restricting “first-dollar” supplemental coverage could reduce federal spending, simplify cost sharing, protect against high medical costs, decrease...
View ArticleThe Gap in Medigap
This policy insight examines the low rate of Medigap coverage among people under age 65 with disabilities on Medicare and the federal law that governs consumer rights and protections related to Medigap...
View ArticlePolicy Insight Examines a Key Barrier That Younger Medicare Beneficiaries...
In a new policy insight, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Tricia Neuman and Juliette Cubanski examine a 1990 federal law that ensures that people age 65 and older are able to buy a Medigap policy when...
View ArticleMedigap Enrollment and Consumer Protections Vary Across States
A quarter of people in traditional Medicare had private, supplemental health insurance in 2015—also known as Medigap—to help cover their Medicare deductibles and cost-sharing requirements, as well as...
View ArticleIn All But Four States, Seniors on Medicare Can Be Denied a Medigap Policy...
In all but four states, insurance companies can deny private Medigap insurance policies to seniors after their initial enrollment in Medicare because of a pre-existing medical condition, such as...
View ArticleSources of Supplemental Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries in 2016
Today, 60 million people, including 51 million older adults and 9 million younger adults with disabilities, rely on Medicare for their health insurance coverage, but many Medicare beneficiaries rely on...
View ArticleA Snapshot of Sources of Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries
This brief analyzes the different types of coverage that people with Medicare have and the demographic characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries with these different coverage types.
View ArticleWhat Do People with Medicare Think About the Role of Marketing, Shopping for...
To capture Medicare beneficiaries’ views and experiences in choosing between traditional Medicare and private plans, and among private plans, and the factors that influence these decisions, KFF worked...
View ArticleHow Health Insurers and Brokers Are Marketing Medicare
To capture the state of television marketing activities and consider the implications for people with Medicare, KFF analyzed ad data compiled by the Wesleyan Media Project, that were obtained from...
View ArticleKFF Research Shows that Medicare Open Enrollment TV Ads Are Dominated by...
The annual blitz of ads for Medicare Advantage plans has become a rite of fall, as health insurers, brokers and other third parties seek to court enrollees for these private plans, which are offered to...
View Article10 Reasons Why Medicare Advantage Enrollment is Growing and Why It Matters
This issue briefs lays out 10 reasons why Medicare Advantage enrollment has been growing and why we can expect more growth in the years to come.
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