{"id":129503,"date":"2025-09-03T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129503\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:46:07","slug":"negative-outlook-for-the-us-health-insurance-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129503\/","title":{"rendered":"negative outlook for the US health insurance market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/santee.jpg\" alt=\"Health insurance\" style=\"width: 216px; margin-left: 8px; margin-top: 5px; float: right;\"\/>AM Best has revised its outlook for the U.S. health insurance market from stable to negative.<\/p>\n<p>The rating agency attributes the downgrade to a broad increase in medical costs, a rise in hospital admissions and emergency room visits, and a growing volume of claims related to behavioral health disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Health insurers\u2019 quarterly results for 2025 have been affected by higher-than-expected use of medical and pharmaceutical services, as well as increased claims linked to influenza, COVID-19, and pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>AM Best also cited sustained pressure on the operating margins of government-sponsored health plans, along with a general decline in market-wide profitability, as key factors behind the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AM Best has revised its outlook for the U.S. health insurance market from stable to negative. The rating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[82185,23,82186,786,61697,1766,3,82187,21,19,22,20,25,24,4477],"class_list":["post-129503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-actualite","tag-america","tag-assurance","tag-atlas","tag-mag","tag-magazine","tag-news","tag-reassurance","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}