Funding cuts and regulatory changes could radically reduce Medicaid, the largest program providing medical and health-related ...

This past year featured key developments in the prescription drug policy area, including the implementation of significant ...

Instead, people on Medicare won’t get the two years of continued coverage for telehealth appointments and five years’ for ...

Discussions have taken place on Capitol Hill for public healthcare systems to provide weight loss drug coverage, and there have also been some policy advancements. Consumer demand for GLP-1 ...

Expanding eligibility for MSPs is an important avenue to support health care affordability for older low-income adults, ...

Therefore, the same coverage rules apply. If a person has Medicare Advantage, the policy may require prior authorization for surgery, and subsequent claims are sent to the insurer rather than to ...

Top policy experts offer Medicare reform solutions for the millions of seniors whose health care depends on America's fastest growing federal entitlement. Detailing Medicare's biggest problems ...

As President Donald Trump’s health care agenda for a second term takes shape, it’s becoming clear that many Biden-era ...

Therefore, we were not able to rate this claim as outright false. Robert Berenson, an expert in Medicare policy at the social policy think tank Urban Institute, said in a phone interview that ...

A person pays the premiums for Medigap Plan G to the private insurance company where they buy the policy. They pay the premiums for Medicare Part A and Part B to Medicare. Medicare has an online ...

to not pursue a proposed Medicare policy that would have restricted coverage of a blood test used to monitor for transplant rejection. In this report, we follow up on what has happened since.

A key cost-saving provision of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) goes into effect in the new year, limiting annual out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs to $2,000 for Medicare beneficiaries.