{"id":26342,"date":"2026-08-03T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26342"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:25:59","slug":"5-insurers-stepping-back-from-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26342","title":{"rendered":"5 insurers stepping back from Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, a handful of insurers have left the Medicare Advantage market, and others have scaled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical costs and federal cost-containment efforts have affected MA\u2019s financial viability. For example, ongoing tensions around how star ratings are calculated \u2014 and, thus, which plans secure bonus payments \u2014 have complicated matters. Amid prior authorization denials and reimbursement issues, some hospitals have also moved away from accepting these plans.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/5-insurers-stepping-back-from-medicare-advantage\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/5-insurers-stepping-back-from-medicare-advantage\/\">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: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) In recent years, a handful of insurers have left the Medicare Advantage market,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[80,385,238,511,62],"class_list":["post-26342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-insurers","tag-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342","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=26342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}