{"id":2919,"date":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/medicare-advantage-payment-rate-2026-cms-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:04:37","slug":"medicare-advantage-payment-rate-2026-cms-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/medicare-advantage-payment-rate-2026-cms-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Trump gives major lift to 2026 Medicare Advantage payments"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Trump gives major lift to 2026 Medicare Advantage payments
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Health insurers that sell Medicare Advantage plans are going to get about $30 billion more in taxpayer money next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s Medicare agency finalized a rule Monday that would raise benchmark payment rates to privatized Medicare plans by 5.1% for 2026<\/a>. That was higher than the Biden administration\u2019s proposed payment increase of 2.2%<\/a> \u2014 and well above what Wall Street investors had expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The increase is greater because Medicare\u2019s actuaries used more updated federal data on the spending patterns of people who are enrolled in the traditional Medicare program, which is used to calculate how much Medicare Advantage plans should be paid to cover their members.<\/p>\n

Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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STAT+: Trump gives major lift to 2026 Medicare Advantage payments Health insurers that sell Medicare Advantage plans are going to get about $30 billion more in taxpayer money next year.\u00a0 President Trump\u2019s Medicare agency finalized a rule Monday that would raise benchmark payment rates to privatized Medicare plans by 5.1% for 2026. That was higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,58,2157,1428,2288,2213,2215,2266,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-cms","category-health","category-health-insurance","category-insurance","category-medicare","category-medicare-advantage","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}