{"id":588495,"date":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:54:12","slug":"us-finalizes-2-48-medicare-advantage-payment-hike-above-near-flat-january-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588495\/","title":{"rendered":"US finalizes 2.48% Medicare Advantage payment hike, above near-flat January proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Reuters;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Reuters\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"171\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62e21440-2fbd-11eb-95ff-5673fa3d2f9f.png\"\/><\/a>Mon, April 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/05bab2012feb179bd1ac69a33eb7e67d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A technician stocks the shelves of a pharmacy in this file photo in U.S., February 7, 2018. REUTERS\/Bryan Woolston\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p>April 6 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. has finalized an average rate increase of \u200c2.48% in payments next year, compared \u200cwith the near flat proposal in January, to private \u200binsurers for the Medicare Advantage plans they manage for older adults, the government website said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; \u200cMedicaid Services said \u2060the new rate is projected to result in a net average \u2060increase of over $13 billion in additional Medicare Advantage payments to plans in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bfinal rate \u200bcomes as a \u200brelief for insurers, including \u200cUnitedHealth, Humana and CVS, which had lost billions in market value after the Trump administration proposed a much smaller-than-expected rate increase of 0.09% for 2027 Medicare Advantage \u200cplans in January.<\/p>\n<p>UnitedHealth and \u200bCVS have broader business \u200blines that \u200bcan help buffer Medicare Advantage volatility, \u200cwhile Humana remains more \u200bconcentrated in \u200bthe plans for older adults.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of UnitedHealth, CVS and Humana rose between \u200b8% and \u200c14% in extended trading.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sriparna Roy \u200band Christy Santhosh in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Sriraj Kalluvila)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, April 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM UTC A technician stocks the shelves of a pharmacy in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,72043,84,392,14937,3175,82297,26581],"class_list":{"0":"post-588495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-medicare-advantage","14":"tag-older-adults","15":"tag-rate-increase","16":"tag-unitedhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}