Blue Cross Blue Shield plans financials showing strong growth in 2023 driven by membership increases and performance of business units
Emerging in 2021 were five (5) major themes in the report Healthcare Market Trends: Themes Impacting 2022-2023 Health Benefits Coverage
Last week, the Social Security and Medicare boards of trustees released their annual financial forecasts, and media reports predictably led with their scariest interpretation of those forecasts: “Hospital fund set to run out by 2026” read one typical headline. The trustees have a long-established track record of, well, let’s call it “conservative” forecasting, and nothing […]
Impact of Commercial Insurance in 2017 – Considerable attention and planning has been focused on the Medicare market, but as we see from the chart below, Medicare represents approximately 13% of the total population. Employer 49% Medicaid 19% Medicare 13% Uninsured 10% Non-Group 6% Other Public 2% (Source: Kaiser Family Foundation) A recent Mercer […]