Insurance, Medicare and Medicaid News

Efforts to combat racial disparity in health health care are exploring why some ethnicities have fewer options for high-dose flu...

Since 2020, Medicare Advantage plans nationwide have partnered with companion providers to address members’ loneliness — a problem exacerbated by...

If you listen to the nation’s largest Alzheimer’s disease advocacy organizations, you might think everyone living with Alzheimer’s wants unfettered...

The White House this week said CMS will first study the issue of nursing home staffing and then propose minimum...

The drug industry, patient advocates, and congressional Republicans have all attacked the FDA's decision to decline routine Medicare coverage for...

A month into its debut, California’s new Medicaid prescription drug program is riddled with problems, leaving thousands of patients without...

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule...

What group is especially vulnerable to the ravages of covid-19 even if fully vaccinated and boosted? Seniors. And who will...

California’s sweeping new program to buy prescription drugs for its nearly 14 million Medicaid patients has alarmed health clinics that...

Covid-19’s unrelenting spread exposed deep, systemic problems with the quality of care — or lack thereof — at nursing homes...