Dual-eligible Special Needs Medicare Advantage plans (D-SNPs) have been a popular, growing trend in the Medicare Advantage (MA) marketplace over the past several years. D-SNPs are MA plans that are geared to meet the unique needs of beneficiaries that are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. This white paper provides the fundamentals for understanding what a D-SNP is, the different kinds of D-SNPs, and some considerations for developing D-SNP plans for inclusion in a Medicare Advantage Organization’s (MAO) portfolio of plan options.
