Why insurers aren’t cheering CMS’ Medicare Advantage increase
From Modern Healthcare — Apr 8th, 2026
Medicare Advantage insurers will retain billions of dollars in payments next year after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services raised payments and set aside critical program reforms.
Wall Street celebrated with a sigh of relief. The sector’s response to Monday’s rate announcement, a proposal that received 47,000 comments, has been more muted as it worries about what’s ahead.
”I think that there’s still a lot of uncertainty about what the administration thinks and feels about Medicare Advantage,” said Spencer Perlman, managing partner and director of healthcare research at Veda Partners, an independent research group.
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