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Closer Looks at 2025 Medicare Advantage Landscape Show Retreats and Realignments

  • Oct 17

    Oct 17, 2024

    In the weeks following the Sept. 27 release of the 2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D landscape files and other key information, experts taking a deeper look at next year’s plan offerings agree that there’s not one linear story that can be told about the market. Of the clear takeaways, MA insurers are making strategic service area reductions, continuing to invest in Special Needs Plans (SNPs) addressing chronic conditions and dual eligibles, and shifting around various plan design elements to maintain $0 premiums. Given plans’ repositioning efforts and benefit changes that may not all be obvious, experts say Medicare beneficiaries will likely need to shop around during the Annual Election Period (AEP), which began on Oct. 15. Read more
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    • Lauren Flynn Kelly

    Lauren has been covering health business issues since the early 2000s and specializes in in-depth reporting on Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid and Medicare Part D. She also possesses a deep understanding of the complex world of pharmacy benefit management, having written AIS Health’s Radar on Drug Benefits from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2011 to 2016. In addition to her role as managing editor of Radar on Medicare Advantage, she oversees AIS Health’s publications and manages the health editorial staff. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in English.

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