MMAPA, the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Products Association of Puerto Rico, is a non-profit composed of the leading Medicaid and Medicare Advantage organizations on the island. Our mission is to develop policy proposals that sustain and improve funding for Medicare Advantage and Medicaid beneficiaries and the Puerto Rican healthcare system at large.

American citizens in Puerto Rico face major inequities in healthcare because of decades of funding disparities and uncertainty. Our healthcare system is not only significantly underfunded at the federal level, but it is also continuously threatened by funding unpredictability. This disparity is present for both Medicaid and Medicare Advantage (MA) for the hundreds of thousands of Americans on the island who rely on these programs.

Today, 640,000 citizens in Puerto Rico are MA beneficiaries, making the island home to the largest share of MA
beneficiaries across the States. MMAPA remains committed to working with the government of Puerto Rico, as well as the Biden Administration, the 118th Congress, and key government stakeholders, to address healthcare disparities and advance health equity for the American citizens of Puerto Rico for both Medicaid and MA.

Medicare Advantage

Americans in Puerto Rico pay the same Medicare payroll tax as mainland citizens. And yet, Medicare enrollees in Puerto Rico receive the lowest level of federal Medicare spending per enrollee in the country.

Medicaid

Unlike traditional federal Medicaid funding in states, Congress funds Medicaid in Puerto Rico with capped, short-term funds—which means Puerto Rico's Medicaid funding is regularly under threat.

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MMAPA is committed to collaboratively developing and implementing policy solutions to address health care disparities in Puerto Rico.

About MMAPA

MMAPA, the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Products Association, is a non-profit composed of the leading Medicaid and Medicare Advantage organizations in Puerto Rico: First Medical, Humana, MCS, MMM/PMC, Plan de Salud Menonita, and Triple-S Advantage. Founded in 2009, MMAPA advocates for increased government investment in the Puerto Rican health care system.

The federal government has long underfunded federal health programs for the American citizens of Puerto Rico; per capita federal funding levels for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage on the island are lower than those for any state in the nation. Congress also funds federal health care programs in Puerto Rico on short-term bases, regularly subjecting that funding to federal politics and jeopardizing these Americans' access to care.

MMAPA's mission is to develop policy proposals that sustain and improve funding for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries and the Puerto Rican health care system at large. To achieve this, MMAPA members educate, advocate to, and collaborate with local and federal officials to stabilize and increase investments in the island's health care system.

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