Healthcare DIVE October 23, 2024
Rebecca Pifer

The Better Medicare Alliance is warning of disruptions to care for America’s seniors, though MA premiums and major benefits are essentially unchanged next year.

A key lobbying group for Medicare Advantage insurers is ringing warning bells about disruptions to care as a result of increasingly unfriendly government regulations — despite the Biden administration projecting stability in the market next year.

Insurers will offer fewer MA plans nationally in 2025, and on average have raised the out-of-pocket burden on seniors while winnowing the supplemental benefits so popular in the privatized Medicare program, according to an analysis of CMS data performed by Avalere on behalf of the Better Medicare Alliance. The findings mirror those from other research groups.

Insurers were forced to...

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Topics: Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare Advantage
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