May 30, 2024
Big Blue Highmark Sees Bad Trends in Medicare Advantage Pennsylvania-based Big Blue Highmark Health says it is seeing the same sort of Medicare Advantage (MA) trends other plans have reported. It sees increased utilization across inpatient and outpatient as well as rising costs of GLP-1 drugs. #highmark #medicareadvantage #weightlossdrugs https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/highmark-health-seeing-medicare-advantage-and-glp-1-headwinds What Would GOP And Trump Healthcare Agenda Look Like? Many are readying for a new Trump administration and looking at what healthcare policy changes could occur. Many say that the GOP will not go for a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but that enhanced subsidies will die at the end of 2025. The GOP might not fully repeal Medicare drug negotiations, but tweak the law. Trump, too, could revive international reference pricing in Part B and perhaps in Part D. This is where Trump and Biden look a lot alike. The biggest changes could come with Medicaid,