Research Alert: July 22, 2015

Rural Medicare Advantage Enrollment Update, March 2015

Rural Medicare Advantage (MA) and other prepaid plan enrollment in March 2015 was nearly 2.08 million, or 21.2 percent of all rural Medicare beneficiaries. This one year increase of 6.8 percent in rural MA enrollment is lower than the increase in national MA enrollment (16.7 million enrollees, up 8.6 percent from March 2014).

Contact Information:

Keith J. Mueller, PhD
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Phone: 319.384.3832
keith-mueller@uiowa.edu

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