A new State Scorecard on Medicare Performance , released today by the Commonwealth Fund, ranks Vermont as the best state in the country for how well Medicare serves its residents.

But the results come amid big changes to the state’s health insurance market as Medicare open enrollment kicks off for next year.

The report evaluated every state and the District of Columbia on 31 measures of Medicare performance, including: access to care, quality, costs, and health outcomes.

Vermont came out on top followed by Utah and Minnesota. Top-performing states had roughly half as many potentially preventable hospital admissions as states that ranked at the bottom, like Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky.

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The report found fewer older Vermonters (16%) repor

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