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Tip: Medicare Advantage Plans

Tip: Medicare Advantage Plans





Number

0048

Submitting Entities

ALL

Add Date

Mar 11, 2020

Update Date

 Jul 14, 2022 May 25, 2023 Mar 13, 2024 Dec 20, 2024

Update

Updated instructions to identify Medicare Advantage Plans in MCR and commercial claims

included in the January 2025 data tips email

Description

Identifying Medicare Advantage Plans in Medicare FFS data and Commercial claims

Action / Resolution

Commercial Claims

Medicare Advantage plans managed by commercial submitting entities can be selected when ME001_CAT in ('MCR_ADV', ‘MCRAdvPhm’). Payer Type definitions can be found here: Redefined field - ME001_CAT (PAYER_TYPE)

Medicare Fee For Service Data

Medicare Advantage plans do not always have plan names that can easily be identified as Medicare Advantage.  These plans can be identified when Insurance Product Type Code (ME003, MC003, PC003) contains the values  (MDV','HN','HS','MCR','MA','MB','MH', ‘MHO','MI','MPO' or ME001, MC001, or PC001 in ('10155',’60054M')

Alternately, if the data requester has access to Medicare Fee for Service data (available to state agencies only), Medicare Advantage plans are identified in the following way:

[HMO_IND_01] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in January of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_02] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in February of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_03] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in March of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_04] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in April of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_05] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in May of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_06] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in June of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_07] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in July of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_08] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in August of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_09] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in September of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_10] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in October of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_11] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in November of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_12] = '0' beneficiary enrolled in Fee for service plan in December of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_01] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in January of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_02] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in February of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_03] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in March of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_04] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in April of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_05] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in May of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_06] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in June of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_07] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in July of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_08] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in August of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_09] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in September of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_10] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in October of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_11] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in November of the enrollment year [HMO_IND_12] = 'C' beneficiary enrolled in Medicare Advantage plan in December of the enrollment year

Category 1

Medicare Advantage

Category 2

Medicare

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