{"id":939,"date":"2015-10-14T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T01:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=939"},"modified":"2015-10-14T21:08:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T01:08:56","slug":"whats-in-and-whats-out-medicare-advantage-market-entries-and-exits-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s In and What\u2019s Out? Medicare Advantage Market Entries and Exits for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Family Foundation)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">During the debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act<\/span> (ACA), some questioned whether plans would exit as a result of the payment reductions to Medicare Advantage plans, leading to a drop in plan choices, and eventually, a decline in enrollment. Instead, Medicare Advantage enrollment growth has exceeded expectations, increasing from 24 percent of beneficiaries in 2010 to almost one-third (31%) of beneficiaries in 2015.<a id=\"endnote_link_166541-1\" class=\"footnote-link\" title=\"Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman, and Marsha Gold. Medicare Advantage 2015 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update. Menlo Park (CA): 2015. http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/medicare-advantage-2015-spotlight-enrollment-market-update\/\" href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/whats-in-and-whats-out-medicare-advantage-market-entries-and-exits-for-2016\/view\/footnotes\/#footnote-166541-1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> Between 2010 and 2015, the total number of plans declined modestly, but beneficiaries in 2015 still had the option to choose among 18 Medicare Advantage plans, on average.<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/whats-in-and-whats-out-medicare-advantage-market-entries-and-exits-for-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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