Oscar Has Tough 3Q; Clover Reveals It Will Scale Back ACO REACH Business

  • Nov 11, 2022

    Startup insurers that have gone public in recent years continued to lose money in the third quarter of 2022, although Oscar Health, Inc., Bright Health Group, Inc. and Clover Health Investments Corp. all varied in their performance on individual financial metrics. Perhaps the most notable part of the companies’ earnings conference calls, however, was executives’ discussion about decisions to pare down certain books of business amid profitability and execution struggles. 

    Clover Health executives, for example, revealed during their Nov. 7 conference call to discuss quarterly results that the firm plans to scale back its participation as a Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) in CMS’s Global and Professional Direct Contracting  model. The program — which allows participants to share risk and receive capitated payments for serving fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries — starting in January 2023 will transition into the revamped ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model.  

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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