Sometimes you may have both private insurance and Medicare coverage. Learn how this can happen, how the plans work together, which pays first, and more.

Coordination of benefits rules determines which insurer pays first when someone has multiple health plans, including Medicare. Medicare can challenge this processing through recovery.

People age 65 or older, as well as people of any age with certain disabilities, qualify for Medicare. There are significant differences between Medicare and private insurance plan options ...

Overall Medicare spending is on track to grow almost 8 percent a year over the decade, outpacing both Medicaid and private insurance, according to new data published June 14. The rapid rise of this ...

Keep in mind that you can't typically buy private health insurance through the health insurance marketplace if you can get Medicare. If you're 65 or older, you can only buy a marketplace plan if ...

The Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) has succeeded in providing seniors with more “choice” among Medicare Advantage (MA) private health insurance plans. However, particularly in rural areas ...

For more information about Medicare Advantage plans, see the Medicare web site or call 800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). For help in choosing a Medigap plan, visit your local State Health Insurance ...

The problem with the diagram in Figure I is that it ignores the falling share of private out-of-pocket spending over the past 40 years, as the insurance share of the bill escalated and the ...

Although her record on abolishing private insurance will likely be a heavy liability to overcome, Harris may choose to revive her own Medicare for all plan, published in July 2019, that would ...

House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled their latest “Medicare-for-all” bill -- a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system that would largely outlaw private insurance as part of ...