Bruce Japsen has written about healthcare business and policy for three decades. He has covered the rise, fall and rise again of health reform, chronicling trends that include the influence of Bill and Hillary Clinton to Barack and Michelle Obama from Chicago where he's based.
footprints for 2025 just a month away, reports are emerging that such growth may not happen as it has in recent years.With the annual announcements from big health insurers that they are expanding their geographic footprints for 2025 just a month away, reports are emerging that such growth may not happen as it has in recent years.
Since then, however, outlooks including Humana’s have improved and quarterly profits have resumed thanks in part to increasing enrollment in Medicare Advantage. “Questions surrounding the program’s overall value during an era of massive budget deficits led lawmakers to advance a multitude of changes in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, including immediately capping reimbursement increases in most counties at 2% despite healthcare cost inflation ranging from 5% to 10%,” Oliver Wyman’s report said.
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