Health care providers and health insurance companies are closing the books on their third quarters, and one major question continues to hang over them: How much care is everyone actually getting, now that Covid-19 isn’t scaring so many away from doctors and hospitals?
The short answer, according to financial analysts and the companies themselves: It appears people continue to fill prescriptions, see their doctors, and get recommended surgeries.
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For health insurers, those trends mean they will have to deposit more money into the bank accounts of providers — perhaps more than they predicted.
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