{"id":229170,"date":"2025-10-16T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:10:11","slug":"unitedhealthcare-humana-wont-include-mayo-clinic-in-most-medicare-advantage-networks-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229170\/","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealthcare, Humana won&#8217;t include Mayo Clinic in most Medicare Advantage networks in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">They\u2019re also making patients pay a higher share of the total bill, which discourages use of out-of-network hospitals and clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">With major medical centers like Mayo, Hoadley said, patients with fairly routine health care needs might note the clinic\u2019s reputation and seek care there even when others could provide comparable quality at a lower cost. Original Medicare with a good Medicare Supplement policy lets seniors make such a choice, including duplicative care, without financial consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cDoes that lead us to getting too much care?\u201d he asked. \u201cShould a plan help to manage those decisions for us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">For now, insurance agents say the clear trend is for Medicare Advantage plans to limit patient options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cThey\u2019re simply closing their [broad-access plans] altogether or removing them from certain counties,\u201d said Joshua Haberman, the chief executive at Alexander &amp; Haberman in Bloomington. \u201cOther companies are taking a different approach, where &#8230; [these plans] function as much narrower networks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re also making patients pay a higher share of the total bill, which discourages use of out-of-network hospitals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-229170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229170","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=229170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}