by Carrie Haubensak | Apr 14, 2022 | Insurance Industry, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, news
Medicare Supplement market leader United Healthcare (UHC) released 1st quarter 2021 financials on April 14th, reporting a 40,000 decrease in Medicare Supplement lives in the 1st quarter. The UHC enrollment table below features Standardized and Modernized policy...
by Carrie Haubensak | Apr 8, 2022 | Medicare, Medicare Advantage, news
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Announcement of Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies (the Rate Announcement). CMS’s goals for Medicare Advantage and Part D mirror...
by Carrie Haubensak | Mar 3, 2022 | Medicare, Medicare Advantage, news
As a parting gesture to a pandemic-ravaged city, former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio hoped to provide the city with a gift that would keep on giving: new health insurance for 250,000 city retirees partly funded by the federal government. Although he promised better...
by Carrie Haubensak | Feb 24, 2022 | Insurance Industry, Medicare Advantage, news
Overall Medicare Advantage enrollments as of February 2022 reflected year-end growth of 1.4 million lives compared to December 2021. The Medicare Advantage year-end growth of 1.4 million lives was the 2nd highest year-end growth total in the history of the Medicare...
by Carrie Haubensak | Feb 17, 2022 | Insurance Industry, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, news
A contract dispute between the nation’s largest Medicare Advantage insurer and a storied health system could provide a glimpse into the future of rate negotiations. Mayo Clinic will no longer schedule appointments for out-of-network patients, aside from those...
by Carrie Haubensak | Feb 17, 2022 | Medicare, Medicare Advantage, news
Primerica executives acknowledged Tuesday that selling Medicare plans turned out to be tougher than they had expected — and that one reason is that the shift to remote work was not good for agent sales performance. The Duluth, Georgia-based company is best known for...
