If you're close to retirement and struggling to afford Medicare Part B, it may be tempting to claim Social Security early.

If a person qualifies for a Specified Low-income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) program, Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB), or Qualifying Individual (QI) program, they may also be able to get ...

Feds Probe UnitedHealth's Medicare Advantage Billing Practices The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Medicare Advantage billing practices at ...

One option being seriously considered is to squeeze up to $880 billion from federal programs over 10 years, including Medicaid. The House and Senate will come up with dueling proposals.

While the Senate must sign off on the House's resolution before Congress adopts the legislation, the budget resolution starts a process that could result in significant changes to Medicaid ...

Healthcare workers are pushing back. Medicaid and Medicare Cuts Cost Lives The Republican cost-cutting mantra these days is to slash and burn – and worry about the collateral damage to the ...

Just over 34.4 million people were enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans as of Feb. 1, representing fairly slim growth across the program's annual enrollment period. Enrollment grew by 3.8% ...

Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a graduate of the University at Albany. As a member of CNET's How To team, he writes about the intersection of policy, information and technology, and ...

The more things changed for Medicare Advantage in 2025, the more they stayed the same. Yet despite the upheaval, the program’s three largest insurers – UnitedHealthcare, Humana and Aetna ...

The number of people enrolled in a private Medicare Advantage plan grew just 3.1% from 2024 to 2025 — well below projections from the federal government and Wall Street, and one of the slowest ...

Enrollment in privatized Medicare coverage continued to grow at the outset of 2025, despite insurers cutting back benefits to improve the profitability of their plans. Still, year-over-year growth ...