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This training video is designed to help Medicaid and partner agency staff learn about the different types of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits and their relevance to Medicare Advantage enrollees, health plans, and state officials. The training video also highlights some of the factors affecting Medicare Advantage plan benefit design, as well as policy and program design opportunities available to states.

Through this training, viewers will become more familiar with:

  1. The different types of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits;
  2. The relevance of these benefits to state officials, dually eligible individuals, and health plans;
  3. How these benefits are designed and funded, including factors that may influence what plans offer; and
  4. Opportunities for states to better understand and potentially influence supplemental benefit design.

To learn more, download the training overview.

About the Medicare Advantage Policy Basics Series

This video is part of a training series, Medicare Advantage Policy Basics, produced by the Center for Health Care Strategies through the Medicare Academy, an initiative made possible by Arnold Ventures, The Commonwealth Fund, and The SCAN Foundation. Additional trainings in the series cover: