Medicare Advantage Beneficiary and Plan Information

This video is one segment in a series of videos from ResDAC’s Introduction to the Use of the Medicare Encounter Data for Research.

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.