From Medicare Advantage News - Medicare Advantage plans still generally are reporting strong earnings, aided by continued low medical-services utilization, based on figures and comments on first-quarter results of publicly held firms presented late last month and early this month. But several of the plan sponsors also pointed to storm clouds on the horizon in the form of not only payment-rate reductions but also the industry fee that starts in 2014 and the expected return of higher utilization patterns. The prime example of all of those trends may be Humana Inc. Read more