{"id":8756,"date":"2025-12-01T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/medicare-advantage-enrollment-challenges-star-ratings-health-care-inc\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:03:29","slug":"medicare-advantage-enrollment-challenges-star-ratings-health-care-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/medicare-advantage-enrollment-challenges-star-ratings-health-care-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Medicare Advantage enrollment chaos, and more expensive stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Medicare Advantage enrollment chaos, and more expensive stars<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/health-care-inc\/\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey, everyone! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Did you know we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/marketing.statnews.com\/stat-plus-cyber25\" rel=\"noopener\">wildly good Cyber Week deal<\/a> to become a STAT+ subscriber? I really appreciate all of you \u2014 you could be doing a million other things, and yet you decide to take a couple minutes and read some words here. I especially enjoy your comments, criticism, and tips. I read them all: <a href=\"mailto:bob.herman@statnews.com\" rel=\"noopener\">bob.herman@statnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dynamite-in-the-medicare-marketplaces\">Dynamite in the Medicare marketplaces<\/h2>\n<p>Over the past few years, the Medicare insurance markets have become an increasingly feverish game of hot potato (some may even call it cherry-picking, who\u2019s to say). Numerous health insurance companies have altered benefits and drug formularies with the intention of pushing their sicker, costlier customers to choose a competitor\u2019s plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/01\/medicare-advantage-enrollment-challenges-star-ratings-health-care-inc\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bob Herman<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/01\/medicare-advantage-enrollment-challenges-star-ratings-health-care-inc\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Medicare Advantage enrollment chaos, and more expensive stars This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0Sign up here. Hey, everyone! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Did you know we have a wildly good Cyber Week deal to become a STAT+ subscriber? I really appreciate all of you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2157,2208,2209,2178,2210,2211,2288,2212,2213,153,2266,3541,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cms","category-drug-development","category-drug-prices","category-government-agencies","category-health-care-inc","category-health-care-inc-newsletter","category-health-insurance","category-hospitals","category-insurance","category-legal","category-medicare-advantage","category-medicare-negotiation","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756"}],"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=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}