\u201cWe examined our Medicare portfolio and made necessary adjustments to help maintain long-term stability in the market amid multiple financial pressures,\u201d Eagan-based Blue Cross said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A Star Tribune review of federal data plus the Medicare Plan Finder website<\/a> shows roughly 200,000 enrollees across the state are losing their current Medicare Advantage plans. That\u2019s primarily due to a huge statewide pullback<\/a> at Minneapolis-based health insurer UCare, plus smaller exits from specific counties by Blue Cross, HealthPartners, Humana and UnitedHealthcare.<\/p>\n Double-digit premium increases are coming for another 200,000 people in Medicare Advantage plans, according to the Star Tribune review, if they don\u2019t switch to different coverage.<\/p>\n One UnitedHealthcare plan with about 20,000 current enrollees, for example, will see premiums increase by 42%, from $66 to $94 per month. The company noted, however, that most UnitedHealthcare members paying premiums for plans this year will have access to a different option with a $0 premium next year.<\/p>\n \u201c2026 is a pivotal moment for the Medicare Advantage program,\u201d said Bobby Hunter, UnitedHealthcare\u2019s chief executive of government programs, during a call with reporters last month. \u201cWe are making tough decisions … in response to the [Medicare] funding cuts and the medical cost pressures that are significantly impacting the program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe examined our Medicare portfolio and made necessary adjustments to help maintain long-term stability in the market amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-234721","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\/234721","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=234721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}