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      "slug": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "title": "Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment",
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027",
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      "role": "A major MA insurer that is exiting plans affecting about 600,000 members for 2027 while appealing its earlier star-ratings case.",
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      "updated_at": "2026-10-14T02:01:40.262749+00:00"
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      "id": 2135,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n2135",
      "date": "2026-10-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Humana says 95 percent of MA members are in four-star plans",
      "summary": "Humana said 95% of its Medicare Advantage members were enrolled in plans rated four stars or higher for 2027. Healthcare Dive reported that its analysis of CMS data put Humana's corresponding percentage at 93%.",
      "type": "announcement",
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        "Medicare Advantage",
        "Healthcare Dive"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://policy.humana.com/news-and-resources/news-press/2026/humana-announces-improved-cms-star-ratings-with-95-percent-of",
          "outlet": "Humana",
          "published": "2026-10-08",
          "quote": "today announced improved Star Ratings for 2027, highlighted by 95% of its Medicare Advantage members being enrolled in plans rated 4.0 stars or above by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicare-advantage-stars-2027-winners-losers/832582/",
          "outlet": "Healthcare Dive",
          "published": "2026-10-09",
          "quote": "Humana, which suffered a major ratings collapse two years ago, saw the percentage of its members in 4+star plans rocket from 41% in 2026 to 93% in 2027, according to a Healthcare Dive analysis of stars data released Thursday by the CMS."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 1622,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n1622",
      "date": "2026-09-29",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Healthcare Dive reports UnitedHealthcare and Humana plan cuts for 2027",
      "summary": "Healthcare Dive reported that UnitedHealthcare was removing about 690 Medicare Advantage plans for 2027. It reported that Humana was removing about 2,400 plans.",
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      "entities": [
        "UnitedHealthcare",
        "Humana",
        "Medicare Advantage"
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        "medicare-advantage"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicare-advantage-cuts-2027-cms-landscape/831563/",
          "outlet": "Healthcare Dive",
          "published": "2026-09-29",
          "quote": "UnitedHealthcare, the largest MA insurer, is nixing about 690 plans, while Humana, the second-largest, is culling about 2,400."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/newsroom/2026/2026-10-01-uhc-2027-medicare-plans-focus-on-affordability-simplicity.html",
          "outlet": "UnitedHealth Group",
          "published": "2026-10-01",
          "quote": "Approximately 95% of Medicare-eligible individuals in UnitedHealthcare's footprint will have access to a Medicare Advantage HMO plan in 2027, with most having a $0 premium."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.uhcprovider.com/en/resource-library/news/2026/medadv-2027-service-area-changes.html",
          "outlet": "UnitedHealthcare",
          "published": "2026-10-01",
          "quote": "Effective Jan. 1, 2027, we’re making some changes to UnitedHealthcare® Medicare Advantage service areas and discontinuing some plans."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/usa/unitedhealthcare-aetna-say-2027-medicare-advantage-plans-offer-more-limited-provider",
          "outlet": "Reuters, via The Business Standard",
          "published": "2026-10-01",
          "quote": "Hunter said UnitedHealth next year will exit locations where it currently offers a higher proportion of preferred provider organizations, or those that give members an option to see providers outside of the plan network."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 636,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n636",
      "date": "2026-09-05",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Plan non-renewal letters are due by October 2; open enrollment runs October 15 to December 7",
      "summary": "With insurers having told investors which 2027 plans will end on December 31, members learn by letter in early October, leaving a window before open enrollment closes on December 7. Those whose plan is terminated get a guaranteed-issue right to buy Medigap if they return to Original Medicare, a protection lost if they simply pick another MA plan.",
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        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://247wallst.com/personal-finance/2026/09/05/insurers-have-already-told-wall-street-which-advantage-plans-die-on-december-31-members-are-the-last-to-know-and-the-letter-isnt-due-until-october-2/",
          "outlet": "24/7 Wall St.",
          "published": "2026-09-05",
          "quote": "Insurers spent the summer telling Wall Street exactly which Medicare Advantage plans are disappearing on December 31. Enrolled members get a letter in October, a closing enrollment window in December, and a rare legal protection most will never realize they… This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 1500,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n1500",
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "The Villages Health System agrees to $541.5 million FCA settlement",
      "summary": "The Villages Health System agreed to a $541.5 million settlement resolving self-disclosed False Claims Act allegations concerning Medicare Advantage diagnosis codes. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that unsupported codes increased Medicare Advantage payments; the settlement did not determine liability.",
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      "entities": [
        "The Villages Health System",
        "U.S. Department of Justice",
        "CMS",
        "Humana",
        "UnitedHealthcare",
        "GuideWell",
        "Florida Blue"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "the-villages-health-system",
        "us-department-of-justice",
        "cms",
        "humana",
        "unitedhealthcare",
        "guidewell",
        "florida-blue"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/villages-health-system-llc-agrees-5415m-settlement-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations",
          "outlet": "U.S. Department of Justice",
          "published": "2026-08-26",
          "quote": "The Villages Health System LLC (TVH), a healthcare provider group headquartered in The Villages, Florida, has agreed to a $541.5 million settlement to resolve self-disclosed allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false diagnosis codes in order to increase payments that they received from the Medicare Advantage program."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/the-villages-health-medicare-overbilling-settlement-doj-humana/828915/",
          "outlet": "Healthcare Dive",
          "published": "2026-08-27",
          "quote": "The Villages Health, a healthcare provider in Central Florida, has agreed to pay $541.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 635,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n635",
      "date": "2026-07-29",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Humana will drop 2027 plans covering about 600,000 members, 8 percent of its base",
      "summary": "On its second-quarter call CFO Celeste Mellet confirmed that Humana's 2027 plan exits would affect roughly 600,000 members, concentrated in the least profitable plans, most rated 3.5 stars or lower for the 2027 bonus year, while the company expected to recapture a share similar to the 40-plus percent it kept after the 2025 exits. Non-renewal letters go out in September and October.",
      "type": "financial",
      "entities": [
        "Humana",
        "Celeste Mellet",
        "Jim Rechtin"
      ],
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        "humana",
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/medicare-advantage/humana-to-exit-medicare-advantage-plans-covering-600000-members-in-2027/",
          "outlet": "Becker's Payer Issues",
          "published": "2026-07-29",
          "quote": "Humana expects Medicare Advantage plan exits next year to affect around 600,000 members as the insurer continues to focus on margin recovery. “We will work to recapture a significant portion of that volume as we did in 2025,” CFO Celeste Mellet said on the company’s July 29 second quarter earnings call."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/humana-dropping-plans-cover-600-210221578.html",
          "outlet": "24/7 Wall St. (via Yahoo Finance)",
          "published": "2026-08-15",
          "quote": "Humana (NYSE: HUM) confirmed the exits on its July 29, 2026 earnings call, and CFO Celeste Mellet was blunt about the scope: \"For 2027, we anticipate these plan exits will impact approximately 600,000 members, though we will work to recapture a significant portion of that volume as we did in 2025.\" salarko / iStock via Getty Images That is about 8% of Humana's 7.2 million MA members."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.aol.com/articles/humana-maintains-affordable-medicare-advantage-110000000.html",
          "outlet": "Business Wire, via AOL",
          "published": "2026-10-01",
          "quote": "Medicare Advantage plans in approximately 2,600 counties across 45 states and Washington, D.C., representing more than 80% of U.S. counties."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 632,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n632",
      "date": "2026-06-05",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "KFF: Medicare Advantage holds 55 percent of eligible beneficiaries, but employer-group enrollment falls for the first time since 2010",
      "summary": "KFF's annual enrollment update put 2026 MA penetration at 55 percent with UnitedHealthcare and Humana still holding almost half the market, but found enrollment growth slowing sharply, employer and union group plans down by about 31,000, and UnitedHealthcare down nearly 647,000 between March 2025 and March 2026 while Humana gained 1.3 million.",
      "type": "report",
      "entities": [
        "KFF",
        "UnitedHealthcare",
        "Humana"
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      "parties": [
        "kff",
        "unitedhealthcare",
        "humana"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.kff.org/medicare/medicare-advantage-in-2026-enrollment-update-and-key-trends/",
          "outlet": "KFF",
          "published": "2026-06-05",
          "quote": "The 2026 enrollment in group plans is a slight decrease from 2025 (a decrease of about 31,000 enrollees), the first time since 2010 that enrollment in this type of plan has declined year-to-year (Figure 5)."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 631,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n631",
      "date": "2026-05-27",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Clover wins a ruling that CMS exceeded its authority on ten star-ratings measures",
      "summary": "A federal district court granted Clover Insurance partial summary judgment, holding that CMS exceeded its statutory authority in calculating ten star measures and skipped notice-and-comment on ten more, the second court in a year to upend the ratings. Humana cited the decision in its pending Fifth Circuit appeal a week later.",
      "type": "legal",
      "entities": [
        "Clover Health",
        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
        "Humana"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "clover-health",
        "centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services",
        "humana"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.groom.com/resources/oh-my-stars-a-federal-court-again-upends-cmss-medicare-advantage-ratings/",
          "outlet": "Groom Law Group",
          "published": "2026-05-28",
          "quote": "On May 27, 2026, a federal district court granted partial summary judgment for Clover Insurance Company (“Clover”), holding that CMS exceeded its statutory authority in calculating ten Star Ratings measures and separately failed to satisfy notice-and-comment rulemaking requirements for ten other measures."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 630,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n630",
      "date": "2026-04-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "CMS finalizes 2027 rates at 2.48 percent, over $13 billion, up from the near-zero proposal",
      "summary": "The final 2027 rate announcement raised the net payment update from 0.09 percent to 2.48 percent, about 4.98 percent once expected risk-score growth is counted, mainly by updating the effective growth rate with newer fee-for-service data. Plan stocks rallied, but the update still trailed the 5.06 percent of 2026 and medical-cost trends insurers said were running near 7 percent.",
      "type": "regulatory",
      "entities": [
        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
        "Mehmet Oz",
        "UnitedHealth Group",
        "Humana"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services",
        "mehmet-oz",
        "unitedhealth-group",
        "humana"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/2027-medicare-advantage-part-d-rate-announcement",
          "outlet": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
          "published": "2026-04-06",
          "quote": "The final policies in the CY 2027 Rate Announcement are projected to result in an increase of 2.48% or over $13 billion in payments to MA plans in CY 2027. When accounting for estimated risk score trend in MA due to factors such as population changes and coding practices, this amounts to a 4.98% increase."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 628,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n628",
      "date": "2026-02-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Enrollment data: MA grows only 3 percent to 35.5 million; UnitedHealthcare down 9 percent since October",
      "summary": "A Healthcare Dive analysis of CMS enrollment files showed 35.5 million people in Medicare Advantage in February 2026 versus 34.4 million a year earlier, growth of about 3 percent against a historical pace of up to 10 percent. UnitedHealthcare fell to just under 9.4 million from 10.3 million before open enrollment; Elevance, Centene and CVS lost 14, 4 and 3 percent of members; Humana was the big gainer.",
      "type": "report",
      "entities": [
        "UnitedHealthcare",
        "Humana",
        "Elevance Health",
        "Centene",
        "Aetna",
        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services"
      ],
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        "unitedhealthcare",
        "humana",
        "elevance-health",
        "centene",
        "aetna",
        "centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicare-advantage-enrollment-2026-unitedhealth-humana-cms/812856/",
          "outlet": "Healthcare Dive",
          "published": "2026-02-24",
          "quote": "Almost 35.5 million people were enrolled in the privatized Medicare programs as of February, compared with about 34.4 million people in the same month last year, according to new government data."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 627,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n627",
      "date": "2026-02-11",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Humana guides to 25 percent individual MA growth for 2026 as rivals retreat, despite a star-ratings hit",
      "summary": "Humana reported a $796 million fourth-quarter loss but said it had added roughly a million individual MA members during open enrollment, with over 70 percent of new sales switching from competitors, and expected about 25 percent growth for 2026. It guided to lower earnings because of the Bonus Year 2026 star-ratings headwind, with about 45 percent of members in 4-star-plus contracts.",
      "type": "financial",
      "entities": [
        "Humana",
        "Jim Rechtin",
        "Celeste Mellet"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "humana",
        "jim-rechtin",
        "celeste-mellet"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49071/000004907126000005/hum-2025q4xex99x1briefxfeb.htm",
          "outlet": "Humana Q4 2025 earnings release (SEC 8-K exhibit)",
          "published": "2026-02-11",
          "quote": "Anticipates FY 2026 individual Medicare Advantage membership growth of 'approximately 25 percent' over 2025; driven by new sales and improved retention from the company's customer-led benefit strategy and changes to its customer service approach"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 624,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n624",
      "date": "2025-10-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Humana loses its second lawsuit over the 2025 star ratings, a day before open enrollment",
      "summary": "Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that CMS acted lawfully when it downgraded Humana's ratings on the strength of a few failed test calls to its customer service lines, dismissing the case with prejudice. The 2025 downgrade had pushed most of Humana's members out of four-star plans and cost it an estimated billion dollars or more in 2026 bonus revenue; Humana appealed to the Fifth Circuit in late November.",
      "type": "legal",
      "entities": [
        "Humana",
        "Reed O'Connor",
        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "humana",
        "reed-oconnor",
        "centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/humana-medicare-advantage-star-ratings-lawsuit-dismissed-again/802739/",
          "outlet": "Healthcare Dive",
          "published": "2025-10-14",
          "quote": "A federal judge ruled in favor of the CMS on Tuesday, one day before the start of Medicare open enrollment."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/humana-appeals-medicare-advantage-star-ratings-case/806628/",
          "outlet": "Healthcare Dive",
          "published": "2025-12-01",
          "quote": "The insurer continues to try to prove that regulators acted arbitrarily in downgrading its quality scores for 2025, despite numerous setbacks in the courts to date."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 623,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n623",
      "date": "2025-10-09",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "2026 star ratings: 40 percent of MA-PD contracts at four stars or better, covering 64 percent of enrollees",
      "summary": "CMS posted the 2026 star ratings on the Plan Finder on October 9, 2025. About 207 MA-PD contracts, 40 percent, earned four or more stars, and the enrollment-weighted average rating edged up to 3.98 from 3.95. The ratings set the 2027 quality bonus payments that feed into the 2027 rate announcement.",
      "type": "report",
      "entities": [
        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
        "Humana",
        "UnitedHealthcare",
        "Elevance Health"
      ],
      "parties": [
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        "humana",
        "unitedhealthcare",
        "elevance-health"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.cms.gov/files/document/2026-star-ratings-fact-sheet.pdf",
          "outlet": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
          "published": "2025-11-18",
          "quote": "Approximately 40% of MA-PDs (207 contracts) that will be offered in 2026 earned four stars or higher for their 2026 overall rating."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 622,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n622",
      "date": "2025-10-02",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "UnitedHealthcare confirms full exits from 16 markets, 109 fewer counties, for 2026",
      "summary": "As the 2026 plan files went public, UnitedHealthcare confirmed it would leave Medicare Advantage entirely in 16 markets, affecting about 180,000 members, and offer plans in one fewer state and 109 fewer counties. Humana cut 194 counties and three states, and Aetna about 90 plans across 100 counties; Elevance added counties but left the standalone Part D market.",
      "type": "announcement",
      "entities": [
        "UnitedHealthcare",
        "Humana",
        "Aetna",
        "Elevance Health"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "unitedhealthcare",
        "humana",
        "aetna",
        "elevance-health"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/life-insurance/unitedhealth-to-exit-medicare-advantage-plans-in-16-markets-551768.aspx",
          "outlet": "Insurance Business",
          "published": "2025-10-02",
          "quote": "UnitedHealthcare will fully exit Medicare Advantage plans in 16 US markets for the 2026 plan year the company confirmed. The move, which will affect about 180,000 policyholders, has been described as part of a broader Medicare Advantage pullback previously announced, which is expected to impact 600,000 policyholders nationwide."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 620,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n620",
      "date": "2025-09-25",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Judge O'Connor vacates the 2023 RADV audit rule that let CMS extrapolate overpayments",
      "summary": "In Humana v. Becerra, the Northern District of Texas granted Humana summary judgment and threw out the 2023 final rule on procedural grounds, finding CMS had changed its justification for dropping the fee-for-service adjuster between proposal and final rule. The decision undercut the extrapolation behind the audit expansion announced in May; CMS appealed to the Fifth Circuit on November 21 and said audits would continue.",
      "type": "legal",
      "entities": [
        "Humana",
        "Reed O'Connor",
        "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
        "U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "humana",
        "reed-oconnor",
        "centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services",
        "us-district-court-for-the-northern-district-of-texas"
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/federal-judge-vacates-medicare-advantage-audit-rule/",
          "outlet": "STAT",
          "published": "2025-09-25",
          "quote": "A federal judge on Thursday vacated a Biden-era rule that would have allowed the government to intensify its audits of private Medicare plans and recoup billions of dollars in overpayments over the next decade. Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas granted health insurer Humana’s motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit challenging a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ final rule from 2023 that would have increased so-called “risk adjustment data verification,” or RADV, audits of Medicare Advantage plans, which verify that the diagnoses Medicare Advantage plans record for their members are supported in those members’ medical records."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "medicare-advantage-2027",
      "id": 619,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/medicare-advantage-2027#n619",
      "date": "2025-07-30",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Humana's 2025 plan and county exits touch about 560,000 members; it trims the expected loss to 500,000",
      "summary": "Humana said its decision to leave unprofitable plans and counties for 2025 had affected roughly 560,000 members, partly offset by new sales, so it now expected individual Medicare Advantage membership to fall by up to 500,000 for the year rather than about 550,000. The insurer was still absorbing the loss of most of its 4-star-rated membership from the 2025 star ratings.",
      "type": "financial",
      "entities": [
        "Humana",
        "Jim Rechtin"
      ],
      "parties": [
        "humana",
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