A 12-page Executive Summary offering summary highlights for 22 Accountable Care Organizations and ACO solutions companies regarding their successes during the most recent MSSP performance year.
Kaiser Family Foundation: 10 Things to Know About Medicare Part D Coverage and Costs in 2019
- Medicare Part D enrollment has doubled since 2006
- now totaling 45 million people in 2019
- For the first time since the Part D program started in 2006
- enrollment in stand-alone drug plans has decreased somewhat
- while enrollment in Medicare Advantage drug plans continues to increase
- Three firms—UnitedHealth
- Humana
- and CVS Health—cover nearly 60 percent of all Medicare Part D enrollees in 2019
- CVS Health
- UnitedHealth
- and Humana have the most stand-alone PDP enrollees in 2019
- but PDP enrollment in each firm decreased modestly from 2018
- Based on enrollment decisions for 2019
- the average monthly premium for stand-alone PDPs decreased by 4% in 2019 to $40
- after several years of modest increases
- Monthly premiums for the top 10 PDPs by enrollment vary
- but most are lower than the national average
- Most Part D enrollees face relatively low cost sharing for preferred generic drugs
- but higher amounts for generics not on the preferred tier
- For non-preferred drugs
- most MA-PD enrollees face copayments while most PDP enrollees face coinsurance; for preferred brands
- copayments are more common than coinsurance for both types of enrollees
- In 2019
- roughly 3 in 10 Part D enrollees receive low-income subsidies (LIS) to help pay their Part D premiums and cost sharing
- but the share of enrollees receiving these subsidies has declined over
- In 2019
- around 1 in 10 low-income subsidy enrollees pay an average of nearly $24 per month for Part D coverage because they are not enrolled in a premium-free plan
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation - https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/10-things-to-know-about-medicare-part-…