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Stand-Alone PDP Market Lives to Fight Another Day, Enrollment Data Shows

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    Mar 13, 2025

    In defiance of some industry watchers’ expectations, there was no mass exodus from stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) to Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plans between 2024 and 2025, one prominent Part D actuary has observed. 

    “Total enrollment was effectively flat from December [20]24 to February 2025; that’s a little bit at odds with what some might have expected,” explains Brooks Conway, principal with Oliver Wyman.  

    As for why enrollment trends this year defied expectations, Avalere Health Principal Robin Duddy-Tenbrunsel points out that “there’s been quite a bit going on” in the Part D world. 

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    • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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