{"id":25607,"date":"2026-02-20T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25607"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:19:08","slug":"medicare-advantages-sunk-cost-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25607","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage\u2019s \u2018sunk-cost\u2019 problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Alan Condon for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicare Advantage now covers about 55% of eligible beneficiaries nationwide \u2014 more than 35 million people \u2014 but health systems are confronting a question that until recently felt almost taboo: What happens when participation in the country\u2019s fastest-growing Medicare program no longer makes financial sense?  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/medicare-advantages-sunk-cost-problem\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/medicare-advantages-sunk-cost-problem\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/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>(By: Alan Condon for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Medicare Advantage now covers about 55% of eligible beneficiaries nationwide \u2014 more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,9],"tags":[80,238,62,94],"class_list":["post-25607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607","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=25607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25608,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions\/25608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}