Healthcare DIVE November 18, 2024
Rebecca Pifer

In the third quarter, the seven major publicly traded insurers’ medical loss ratios increased an average of 3.3 percentage points year over year — a major jump in medical costs.

Despite growing revenues, most major insurers saw their profits from offering health plans shrink in the third quarter as pressures in government programs stretched into the back half of the year.

In Medicare Advantage, seniors are still utilizing more healthcare than insurers expected when pricing their plans. And in Medicaid, states’ payment rates continue to land well below the cost of caring for beneficiaries in the safety-net programs, payers say.

Those forces coalesced to hit insurers, slamming some — notably, CVS-owned Aetna and Humana — while swatting others. Aetna was...

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