Becker's Healthcare July 15, 2024
From new star ratings to market departures, these are seven recent Blue Cross Blue Shield updates involving Medicare Advantage:
1. Florida Blue’s Medicare Advantage plans will be out of network with Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health’s Physician Group primary care providers in September.
2. BCBS Michigan’s Medicare Advantage President, Krischa Winright, sat down with Becker’s in July to discuss the ‘critical success factor’ behind the company’s MA program.
3. Forty payers received revised star ratings from CMS after the agency recalculated its star ratings for 2024, including BCBS Minnesota, Kansas City, North Carolina, Michigan, Independence, and Elevance Health, HCSC and Premera.
4. “Our Medicare Advantage cost trends have faced the same headwinds felt across the industry,” BCBS Minnesota told the...