Humana Reaffirms Guidance After Key Medicare Scores Slip Out (2)

Humana Inc. shares jumped after the company affirmed its earnings guidance for 2025, reassuring investors who have been blindsided by insurance companies’ outlook cuts this year.

The company said its preliminary view of Medicare quality ratings are in line with its assumptions in a filing Thursday.

Humana shares rose 3% at 1:30 pm, though they didn’t fully recover from a drop Wednesday, when the quality ratings were inadvertently made public on a Medicare website.

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