{"id":24983,"date":"2025-10-02T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24983"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:05:17","slug":"some-medicare-advantage-plans-are-reducing-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24983","title":{"rendered":"Some Medicare Advantage plans are reducing operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due to higher-than-expected use of medical services in their Medicare businesses, CVS Health, Humana, and UnitedHealth Group will exit less profitable Medicare Advantage markets. Since 2024, the government has been reducing payments to insurance companies in an effort to cut spending. Amina Niasse, writing for Reuters, explains why Medicare Advantage health plans are reducing operations in 2026. Read Ms. Niasse\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/us-health-insurers-reduce-medicare-172919077.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/us-health-insurers-reduce-medicare-172919077.html\">here\u2026<\/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>\u00a0The 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>Due to higher-than-expected use of medical services in their Medicare businesses, CVS Health, Humana, and UnitedHealth Group will exit less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983","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=24983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24984,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983\/revisions\/24984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}