Healthcare DIVE February 26, 2025
The CMS released highly anticipated MA enrollment data on Tuesday that showed UnitedHealth further tightening its grip on the privatized Medicare market.
Dive Brief:
- Enrollment in privatized Medicare coverage continued to grow at the outset of 2025, despite insurers cutting back benefits to improve the profitability of their plans.
- Still, year-over-year growth in the Medicare Advantage program appears to be slowing following open enrollment in the fall, according to a Healthcare Dive analysis of data released by the CMS on Tuesday.
- UnitedHealthcare, which operates the largest MA payer in the country, further solidified its grip on the market, growing its membership from 9.5 million to 9.9 million people. Humana, the second-largest MA payer, lost the most lives during open...
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