{"id":33250,"date":"2024-10-08T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avalere.com\/?p=33250"},"modified":"2024-11-18T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T19:56:54","slug":"number-of-part-d-plan-choices-decline-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/insights\/number-of-part-d-plan-choices-decline-for-2025","title":{"rendered":"Number of Part D Plan Choices Declines for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span class=\"TextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">On <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">September <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">27<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">, t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">he Centers for <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">Medicare<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">and<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\"> Medicaid Services (CMS)\u202f<\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW70222109 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/medicare-advantage-and-medicare-prescription-drug-programs-remain-stable-cms-implements-improvements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW70222109 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">released<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">\u202fthe 202<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">5<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\"> Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D landscape files. These data show MA and Part D plan offerings and premiums for 202<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">5<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\"> and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">highlight <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW70222109 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/insights\/how-may-the-ira-shift-part-d-market-dynamics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW70222109 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">shifts<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">\u202fin the Part D market <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">in the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW70222109 BCX8\">first full year of Part D benefit redesign implementation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Background<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) significantly redesigns the Part D benefit in 2025 and changes liability between stakeholders (Figure 1). These changes increase plan liability in the Part D benefit and likely led Part D sponsors to shift their strategies in 2025.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Figure 1. Pre-IRA vs. IRA Benefit Design<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33274 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F1-2-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"918\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F1-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F1-2-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/F1-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-note\">Note: Pre-2025, enrollee out-of-pocket costs and manufacturer coverage gap discounts counted toward costs to reach the catastrophic threshold. In 2025 and beyond, manufacturer discounts will not count towards costs to reach the catastrophic threshold. The graphics reflect benefit design for applicable drugs (brands, biologics, and biosimilars).<\/p>\n<p><b>Plan Premiums<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/insights\/part-d-premiums-increasing-despite-stabilization-program\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">premium stabilization<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> program under the IRA and CMS\u2019s voluntary premium stabilization demonstration for standalone Part D Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) are contributing to the limited premium increases for 2025. From 2024 to 2029, the premium stabilization program subsidizes increases in the average basic Part D premium beyond 6%. CMS\u2019s demonstration program for standalone PDPs provides further stability to PDP premiums by reducing the average Part D premium for basic benefits and capping individual plan premiums increases to $35 from 2024 to 2025.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Across all PDPs, Avalere estimates that the enrollment-weighted average PDP premium\u2014which includes both basic and supplemental premiums\u2014is increasing by 4% from 2024 to 2025. However, the discontinuation of a higher proportion of enhanced PDPs relative to basic PDPs in 2025, along with how the premium stabilization programs apply to the basic vs. enhanced portion of the Part D premium, are contributing to opposing trends in average premium changes for these two plan types (Table 1).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Table 1: Enrollment-Weighted Average PDP Premiums by Plan Type, 2024 vs. 2025<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33266 aligncenter\" style=\"color: var(--wpex-text-2); font-family: var(--wpex-body-font-family, var(--wpex-font-sans)); font-size: var(--wpex-body-font-size, 13px);\" src=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Insight-Template_2024-002-1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Insight-Template_2024-002-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Insight-Template_2024-002-1-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Insight-Template_2024-002-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Data for 2025 reflect the Contract Year (CY) 2025 Landscape file released by CMS in September 2024, which included sanctioned plans. A revised version of the Landscape file released in October 2024 removed these sanctioned plans. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMS did not release data on which plan sponsors are participating in the voluntary PDP demonstration. However, CMS estimates that about 99% of those enrolled in standalone PDPs are currently in a plan that will participate in the demonstration for 2025. Avalere estimates that before the application of the CMS demonstration, basic PDP premiums were likely between $42 (low-end estimate) and $46.50 (high-end estimate).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Because the IRA premium stabilization program and components of CMS\u2019s voluntary PDP demonstration work to limit average growth in basic plan premiums, some individual plans will have larger changes in premiums for 2025. For example, about a quarter of PDP enrollees are currently in a plan that is increasing its premium by more than 25% in 2025. Meanwhile, MA-PD plans&#8217; premiums remain stable in 2025. 74% of MA-PD enrollees are currently in a $0-premium plan that will continue to be a $0-premium MA-PD in 2025. An additional 4% of MA-PD enrollees are in plans that will have premium change of less than $1.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Part D Plan Offerings <\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For 2025, the number of PDPs is decreasing by 26%, from 709 plans in 2024 to 524 plans in 2025. This includes sanctioned PDPs that were included in CMS&#8217;s September Landscape file. In an updated Landscape file released by CMS in October, these sanctioned plans were removed. With these PDPs no longer being available, there will only be 464 PDPs available in 2025. The number of MA-PDs is also declining, although more moderately at 7%, from 3,507 MA-PDs in 2024 to 3,246 in 2025 (Figure 2).<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Figure 2. Number of Part D Plans by Plan Type, 2023\u20132025\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33609 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/updated-graphic-11.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/updated-graphic-11.18.png 960w, https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/updated-graphic-11.18-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/advisory.avalerehealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/updated-graphic-11.18-768x461.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>*Data in graphic reflect the CY 2025 Landscape file released in September by CMS, which included sanctioned plans. A revised version of the CY 2025 Landscape file released in October 2024 removed these sanctioned plans. As a result, in 2025, the number of all PDPs will decline to 464 and the number of LIS benchmark PDPs will decrease to 90 plans. The number of MA-PDs in the October landscape file is 3,258.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Changes that made the Part D standard benefit under the IRA more generous (e.g.,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">implementation of the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap) and modifications to how CMS is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/final-cy-2025-part-d-redesign-program-instructions.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">evaluating<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> enhanced plan benefits beginning in 2025 are also contributing to a reduction in enhanced plan options. Specifically, the number of enhanced PDPs is declining by 33% while the number of enhanced MA-PDs is decreasing by 7%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) Benchmark Plan Availability<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Part D market dynamics under the IRA continue to\u00a0shift\u00a0the availability of LIS benchmark plans. Following a significant reduction in the number of LIS benchmark plans from 2023 to 2024, the availability of benchmark plans will decrease slightly in 2025 to 120 plans (Figure 2). With the updated Landscape file removing sanctioned plans, this number will decrease to 90 LIS benchmark PDPs in 2025. CMS\u2019s voluntary Premium Stabilization Demonstration for PDPs likely helped prevent even greater reductions in LIS benchmark plans that would have occurred without this demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in LIS benchmark plan availability will also vary by state (Figure 3). Based on the September Landscape file, in 2025, five states will have only two LIS benchmark plan options. However, based on the updated October Landscape file that removes sanctioned plans, four out of these five states (FL, IL, NV, and TX) \u00a0will now have only one LIS benchmark plan option in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the September Landscape file, Avalere estimates that approximately 500,000 LIS enrollees are currently in plans that will no longer qualify as benchmark plans or that will exit the market in 2025. In 12 states, more than one-third of LIS enrollees in benchmark PDPs would need to switch plans or pay a premium in 2025. 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A revised version of the Landscape file released in October 2024 removed these sanctioned plans. As a result, numbers may be different for states that previously included sanctioned plans. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Potential Effects on Beneficiary Enrollment Patterns<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the Medicare Annual Election Period (AEP) begins on October 15 and runs through December 7, broader changes to the Part D benefit under the IRA, along with shifts in plan offerings and individual plan premiums, will shape beneficiary enrollment choices. Prior <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicare\/press-release\/nearly-7-in-10-medicare-beneficiaries-do-not-compare-coverage-options-during-open-enrollment\/#:~:text=The%20analysis%20shows%20that%2082,in%20their%20area%20for%202022.\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">research<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> has indicated that most Medicare beneficiaries don&#8217;t compare Part D plans during the AEP. However, given the significant changes to the Part D market, 2025 will be a critical year for beneficiaries to consider their plan options. Stakeholders should prepare for how these market disruptions and enrollment shifts may impact beneficiary access and affordability.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For more information on how plan availability, premiums, and benefits for 2025 and beyond will impact your organization,\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.avalere.com\/Keep-In-Touch.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">connect with us<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<h2>Methodology<\/h2>\n<p>Avalere used the Landscape files released by CMS in September 2023-2025 each year. Except where noted, 2025 data reflect numbers from CMS&#8217;s September Landscape file release, which include a sanctioned Part D sponsor. At the time of this analysis, the Part D sponsor was appealing CMS&#8217;s decision and data for its plans were included in the September Landscape file. Employer Group Waiver Plans (EGWPs), Special Needs Plans (SNPs), Medicare-Medicaid Plans, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly cost plans, and plans in US territories are excluded from this analysis. For calculations of enrollment-weighted average premiums, Avalere uses enrollment data from September 2024 for 2024 and 2025 plans. Enrollment-weighted average premium estimates only include plans that were available in both 2024 and 2025. For estimates reflecting LIS enrollees, Avalere derives LIS enrollment at the state level by using the Contract-Plan-State-County level Part D enrollment file released by CMS in March 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]On September 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)\u202freleased\u202fthe 2025 Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D landscape files. These data show MA and Part D plan offerings and premiums for 2025 and highlight shifts\u202fin the Part D market in the first full year of Part D benefit redesign implementation. 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