States with highest, lowest Medicare Advantage premiums | 2025
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Average Medicare Advantage premiums in 2025 range from $2.44 in Nevada to $62.25
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Medicare Advantage premiums, benefits stable for ’25, CMS says: 10 notes
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Average Medicare Advantage premiums and Medicare Part D premiums will decrease in 2024,
Read MoreThe Medicare Advantage Influence Machine
(By Fred Schulte and Holly K. Hacker for KFF Health News) Federal officials resolved more than a decade ago to
Read MoreValue-based care: Transforming Medicare for the better
By Juie Bataille for Medical Economics on September 23, 2024 Value-based care (VBC) is a health care payment model that shifts the
Read MoreCalifornia May Regulate and Restrict Pharmaceutical Brokers
(By Don Thompson for KFF Health News) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide whether the most
Read MoreHCSC approved to purchase Cigna’s Medicare business in Florida
(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Florida’s insurance commissioner has given the green light for Health Care Service Corp.
Read MoreAllowing Medicare to Negotiate Drug Prices Remains Broadly Popular Among Voters, Though Most Are Unaware of the Law and Its Projected Savings
(By Craig Paloskey for The Kaiser Family Foundation published September 13, 2024) Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices on behalf
Read MoreOptum joins CVS, Cigna in dropping Humira
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Optum Rx will join the other major pharmacy benefit managers and exclude Humira
Read MoreMedicare Advantage Quality Bonus Payments Will Total at Least $11.8 Billion in 2024
(By Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Meredith Freed, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Sep 11, 2024)
Read MoreInsurers: Mental health parity rule will have ‘severe unintended consequences’
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Insurers and employers are pushing back on new rules that would toughen requirements
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