Medicare Advantage Beneficiary and Plan Information (August 2024)

This video is one segment in a series of videos from ResDAC’s Introduction to the Use of the Medicare Encounter Data for Research (August 2024).
This presentation overviews key variables describing Medicare Advantage enrollment in the MBSF:
Monthly enrollment and plan contract identifier variables to identify enrollment.
Variables used to link the MBSF and to the plan characteristics file; and
Variables characterizing plans (e.g. plan type, special needs plans indicators, supplemental benefits, etc.) from the plan characteristics file.