Category: Benefits & Retirement
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Humana is dropping Medicare Advantage plans for about 600,000 members in 2027, and only 4 in 10 will be moved to a plan it keeps
Humana has told investors it will pull out of Medicare Advantage plans that cover roughly 600,000 members for the 2027 plan year, and it expects to move only about four in ten of those people into another plan it still sells. For everyone else, the plan they use today simply will not exist in January,…
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Veterans get their 2027 disability raise decided in October, and the law says it must match Social Security’s
Three dates govern a veteran’s next disability increase, and none of them has arrived. Social Security announces its cost-of-living adjustment in October, the new percentage takes effect December 1, 2026, and it first appears in the payment veterans receive in January 2027. Until that October announcement, there is no 2027 VA disability figure of any…
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Medicare is adding to the list of equipment that needs a doctor’s order before delivery on October 28
The document at the center of this change is an ordinary one: a signed written order that has to reach the equipment supplier before the item is delivered, supported by a face-to-face visit with the treating practitioner in the six months before that order was written. On October 28, 2026, twenty-two more equipment codes come…
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Providence Health Plan is closing entirely after a rescue deal for its 64,000 Medicare Advantage members collapsed
In May, Providence Health Plan told its markets it would exit most of its insurance business for 2027 and carved out a single exception. The Oregon-based insurer said it was negotiating with an unnamed national carrier to keep its Medicare Advantage line running under new ownership, so that members could stay covered and, in most…
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Humana expects to win back about 40 percent of the 600,000 members losing their Medicare Advantage plans
Six hundred thousand is the figure Humana attached to its 2027 Medicare Advantage plan exits, roughly 8 percent of the nearly 7.2 million people it covers in the program. A second number sits underneath it and has drawn far less attention. The company has told investors it anticipates recapturing roughly 40 percent of that group…
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Medicaid renewals go from once a year to twice, starting January 1
A Medicaid renewal starts quietly, before any mail goes out. The state first tries to confirm eligibility from records it already holds, and only when that fails does it send a prepopulated form with a minimum of 30 days to return it. Nothing about that sequence is changing. What changes on January 1, 2027, is…
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Medicaid will cap protected home equity at $1 million in 2028
One million dollars is the ceiling Congress has placed on the home equity a state may protect when it decides whether Medicaid will pay for a person’s nursing facility care. The figure takes hold on January 1, 2028. Above it, equity in an ordinary house stops being something any state has the discretion to shelter,…



