HealthLeaders Media January 3, 2018
Health plans face challenges such as an influx of people into Medicare and more pressure to participate in risk-based contracts. The uncertainty that complicated health plan strategies in 2017 will continue this year and could accelerate.
Health plans are facing a different landscape this year than they have known in years past, and they will have to act quickly to get ahead of the forces that could determine success or failure. The loss of the individual insurance mandate penalty is only one factor complicating their business strategies, but it makes addressing the other factors even more urgent.
Uncertainty over what their business world will look like in the near future continues to be the overriding concern.
The loss of the...