Some Medicare Advantage plans are offering enrollees surprising supplemental benefits to boost their health, though a new report notes that those benefits have been extended to expenses with a ...

Cutting Medicaid shifts costs to Medicare, increasing the burden on federal taxpayers. Medicaid covers essential services not covered by Medicare, such as nursing home care and premiums ...

Original Medicare (parts A and B) does not include coverage for groceries or long-term food benefits. However, some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans may offer this benefit. When a person enrolls ...

Banner Boswell and Banner Thunderbird will pay nearly $2.7 million to settle Medicare overbilling claims More than 130 hospitals have paid $105 million in claims of overbilling for spinal ...

Medicare is supposed to fund health-care services for elderly and disabled Americans. But poorly structured payments for Medicare Advantage—a program that pays private insurers to manage seniors’ ...

If they were serious about this goal, they would start by overhauling something they long have championed: Medicare Advantage. The program, in which private insurers oversee older people’s ...

Republicans in Congress, long an unwavering source of support for privatized Medicare plans, are increasingly calling for reforms amid widespread evidence that health insurers are abusing the ...

You can reach Bob on Signal at bobjherman.09. Medicare’s financial future unexpectedly got a lot rosier, at least according to some federal budget wonks. The Congressional Budget Office ...

Victoria Shier receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Since the mid-2000s, the Medicare system has dramatically transformed. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage – the private ...

Officials said all lines of coverage underperformed, but about 70% of the year-over-year decline was attributable to Banner’s wholly owned Medicare Advantage plan and its commercial insurance ...

Medicare announced Friday that it has selected 15 drugs, including the hugely popular medications Ozempic and Wegovy, used for diabetes and weight loss, as well as some blockbuster cancer ...

As we near the turnover of administrations, Health Affairs Forefront offers a series of articles from leaders at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offering their thoughts on the major ...