DAILY UPDATE: Medicare Advantage Payment Delays as Stock Markets Split

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Stat: $3+ million. That’s how much Medicare and Medicare Advantage drug plans have been ordered to pay for “inappropriately delaying or denying” services in the first four months of this year—more than the past four years combined, one analysis finds. (Healthcare Dive)

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What’s up

  • Las Vegas Sands added 4.31% after crushing analyst estimates last quarter.
  • Deutsche Bank rose 7.83% to a decade high after shareholders applauded the financial firm’s turnaround efforts.
  • T-Mobile US gained 5.8% thanks to a better-than-expected quarter for the telecom giant.
  • Bloom Energy popped 22.95% on the news that it made a deal with Oracle to provide the tech company’s AI data centers with power.
  • Enterprise software maker ServiceNow jumped 4.16% on management’s promise of more AI growth ahead.
  • West Pharmaceutical Services soared 22.78% on the news that demand for GLP-1 products remains strong.

What’s down

  • IBM dropped 7.62% despite beating analysts expectations on the top and bottom lines last quarter. Shareholders didn’t like to hear management warn of slowing software sales.
  • UnitedHealth Group fell 4.76% on reports that the health insurer is cooperating with the DOJ’s investigation into its Medicare billing practices.
  • Tough day for airlines: American Airlines sank 9.62% after lowering its forward guidance, and Southwest Airlines lost 11.16% after missing analyst earnings estimates.
  • Luxury goods maker LVMH sank 3.66% after sales fell 4% last quarter as the high-fashion industry gets hit with tariff turmoil.
  • Union Pacific fell 4.43% after it confirmed it’s in talks to acquire smaller rival Norfolk Southern, which also lost 0.81%.
  • Honeywell International beat-and-raised earnings last quarter, but the stock still stumbled 6.18% lower.

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Visualize: How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt, from the Financial Times.

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