Kaiser Family Foundation Releases Medicare Advantage Tutorial, Updates Health, Drug Plan Tracker
New Medicare resources on kaiserEDU.org, Kaiser Family Foundation: The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released on kaiserEDU.org a Medicare Advantage Tutorial presented by Michelle Kitchman Strollo, a principle policy analyst at the Foundation. In the tutorial, Strollo discusses the basics of Medicare Advantage and types of MA plans, as well as trends in MA enrollment, characteristics of beneficiaries and the impact of MA plans on traditional Medicare. The Kaiser Family Foundation also updated its Medicare Health and Prescription Drug Plan Tracker with MA plan enrollment data for June. The tracker contains local, regional and national data on MA plans and stand-alone Medicare prescription drug plans (Kaiser Family Foundation release, 7/17).
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