{"id":1988483,"date":"2023-08-02T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humana-beats-profit-estimates-on-lower-than-expected-medical-costs\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:37:16","slug":"humana-beats-profit-estimates-on-lower-than-expected-medical-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humana-beats-profit-estimates-on-lower-than-expected-medical-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Humana exceeds profit expectations due to lower medical expenses."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhumana-beats-profit-estimates-on-lower-than-expected-medical-costs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1988483&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) -Humana\u2019s second-quarter profit beats Wall Street estimates!<\/p>\n<p>Medical costs\u2064 for insurers, especially those with Medicare \u2064plans, have surged in the\u2064 first \u200bhalf of this year \u200das <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humana-beats-profit-estimates-on-lower-than-expected-medical-costs\/\" title=\"Humana exceeds profit expectations due to lower medical expenses.\">older adults resumed\u2062 making appointments<\/a> for medical procedures such as hip and knee replacements they \u2063had \u2063delayed \u200dduring \u200bthe pandemic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Humana reported a medical loss ratio \u2013 the percentage \u200bof its spend on claims\u2062 over\u200b the premiums it collects\u200b \u2013 of 86.3% for the quarter, up from 85.8% a \u2062year earlier but lower than\u2062 the average of analysts\u2019 estimates of 86.50%, according to Refinitiv data.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding one-off items, the health \u2062insurer earned a profit of $8.94 per share in the quarter ended June 30, higher than analysts\u2019 average estimate of $8.82 per\u2063 share, according to Refinitiv data.<\/p>\n<p>  (Reporting by Leroy Leo in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/humana-beats-profit-estimates\/attachment\/signage-for-humana-inc-is-pictured-at-a-health-facility\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Former business associate of Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Monday and reportedly said that Hunter used his father\u2019s influence to sell \u201cthe brand.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Former President Trump is indicted for his alleged role in January 6th, while accusations against Lizzo may not be Rumors.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>After a long day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amb-sondland-sues-pompeo-state-department-for-1-8m-in-legal-fees\/\" title=\"Amb. 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However, Humana managed to control these costs better than anticipated, resulting in higher profits for the second quarter. This positive outcome is particularly significant for insurers with Medicare plans, as medical expenses have been on the rise due to postponed procedures by older adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1988484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}