The consumer appetite for Medicare Advantage (MA) continues to grow in spite of declines in MA plan profitability and providers and insurers exiting this space. The 2026 CMS regulatory changes attempt to address these challenges by increasing payments, improving access to care, expanding coverage, and enhancing quality through updates to the star rating system.
For MA plans to get ahead in this competitive market, they will need a strategy that includes improving visibility into member population health, managing costs and risk, and driving quality through better risk adjustment, care gap closure, and provider performance improvement.
What are your plan’s goals?
Focus on improving the member experience and close gaps in care, specifically HEDIS measures like annual wellness visits, diabetes eye exams and other cancer screenings.
Engage providers and share star ratings, align incentives with provider contracts, and offer real-time data at the point-of-care to improve quality experience and patient outcomes.
Start with a root cause analysis to understand why your plan is in decline. Do you have enough provider coverage in your network? What do your star ratings tell you?
Don’t lose sight of member retention. Use tools like predictive analytics to understand “at-risk” members for proactive outreach and intervention strategies.
Build a competitive, highly targeted benefits plan for your market. Use data to understand the community needs, including SDOH data, to understand growth pockets who are underserved.
Show up in the community and engage trusted community influencers.
Engage providers and brokers with clear, actionable strategies backed by advanced analytics to ensure quality performance and better outcomes.
Strengthen operational infrastructure and find the right data management and advanced analytics partner to support your growth at scale.
Expand provider networks and ensure they have enough support and understand your expectations (HEDIS, RAF, CAHPS).
Build real-time visibility and reporting to manage growth. Growth can’t be tracked with stale data, nor can you ensure compliance. Invest in systems before you need them. Poor technology cost is exponentially higher under rapid growth.
Why partner with MedeAnalytics on improving MA plan performance?
Health Fabric™
Powerful data orchestration in a unified analytics framework streamlines access to data, enabling faster decision-making across critical MA workflows in a secure environment—from risk adjustment to care gap closure and beyond, bring all your data, structured and unstructured, into one single source of truth.
Data Science Factory™
Advanced AI and ML capabilities integrated into the platform extends insights through a vast and ever-growing library of data science models, or you can build your own data models for an unlimited array of use cases, including provider indexing, care gap closure, and HCC grouper model with the support of our team of experts.
Integrated Analytics
A turnkey suite of pre-built solutions provides a comprehensive view of organizational performance with easy-to-use dashboards, navigation, and role-based security; facilitates insights around provider performance, gaps in care, risk adjustment, and network optimization using our proven, pre-built analytics with embedded ROI.
Managed Action™
Our patent-pending technology that bridges the gap between data and decision-making provides clear, actionable steps to improve performance; helps plans monitor trends, push information to workflow tools, and develop strategic playbooks for goals such as improving star ratings or scaling for growth.
Strategic Advisory
Value-focused consulting services that help plans leverage data-driven insights for optimized performance; experts assist with regulatory preparedness, clinical decision-making, process optimization, and more.
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