{"id":4377,"date":"2016-09-20T09:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:58:02","slug":"medicare-advantage-plan-switching-exception-or-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4377","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage Plan Switching: Exception or Norm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gretchen Jacobson, Tricia Neuman and Anthony Damico for Kaiser Family Foundation)<\/p>\n<p><strong>About one in ten Medicare Advantage plan enrollees (11 percent) in 2013 voluntarily switched to another plan in 2014 (Figure 1).<\/strong> Another two percent of enrollees voluntarily switched to traditional Medicare<a id=\"endnote_link_197619-1\" class=\"footnote-link\" title=\"A prior analysis found a higher rate of switching between Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare. The rate is somewhat lower in this analysis because it excludes beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans that did not offer prescription drug coverage, employer group waiver plans, and Special Needs Plans (n=4.78 million beneficiaries in 2013). In total, 4.78 million beneficiaries who would have been included in the other analysis were excluded from this analysis for 2013. For the other analysis, see Jacobson, Gretchen A., Patricia Neuman, and Anthony Damico, \u201cAt Least Half Of New Medicare Advantage Enrollees Had Switched From Traditional Medicare During 2006-11,\u201d Health Affairs (Milwood), 34(1): 148-55, January 2015.\" href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/medicare-advantage-plan-switching-exception-or-norm\/view\/footnotes\/#footnote-197619-1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> and another five percent were required to switch (involuntarily switched) plans because their plan exited the market. <a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/report-section\/medicare-advantage-plan-switching-exception-or-norm-issue-brief\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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