Early Takes on 2025 Landscape Files Confirm MAOs’ Margin-Chasing Cuts

  • Oct 03, 2024

    In its annual release of key premium, benefit and plan information for Medicare Advantage and Part D, CMS on Sept. 27 emphasized stability and robust offerings for 2025, despite repeated warnings from industry trade groups and plans of anticipated benefit reductions in the face of revenue challenges. While emerging analyses tell a slightly different story — that of insurers pursuing higher deductibles and/or maximum out-of-pocket cost amounts to maintain, for example, competitive premiums — industry experts say these early comparisons only tell part of the story, as other yet-to-be released data will convey additional nuances of MA and Part D market changes.  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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