{"id":22723,"date":"2024-04-17T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T12:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22723"},"modified":"2024-04-17T08:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T12:16:48","slug":"medicare-advantage-costs-begin-to-stabilize-unitedhealth-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22723","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage costs begin to stabilize, UnitedHealth says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson\u00a0for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rising medical cost trends aren&#8217;t going down, but they are stabilizing, UnitedHealth Group executives say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CEO Andrew Witty told investors April 16 that pent-up demand and increased health system capacity following the COVID-19 pandemic drove rising costs through 2023, but the trend was a &#8220;one-off.&#8221;  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage-costs-begin-to-stabilize-unitedhealth-says.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage-costs-begin-to-stabilize-unitedhealth-says.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson\u00a0for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Rising medical cost trends aren&#8217;t going down, but they are stabilizing, UnitedHealth Group executives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,200,9,52],"tags":[80,385,238,62,65,189],"class_list":["post-22723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-advantage","category-pandemic","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22724,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723\/revisions\/22724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}