Researcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should
Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original ...
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Medicare’s Open Enrollment Is Open Season for Scammers
Finding the best private Medicare drug or medical insurance plan among dozens of choices is tough enough without throwing misleading ...
Medicare Enrollment Blitz Doesn’t Include Options to Move Into Medigap
Those who have instead opted for traditional Medicare face a critical decision about private insurance. Too often the import of ...
Democrats Plan to Expand Medicare Hearing Benefits. What Can Consumers Expect?
President Joe Biden’s mammoth domestic spending bill would add hearing benefits to the traditional Medicare program — one of three ...
Few Acute Care Hospitals Escaped Readmissions Penalties
Various analyses have found many readmissions within a month of discharge might have been avoided through better care and more ...
Nursing Home Residents Overlooked in Scramble for Covid Antibody Treatments
Across the country, medical directors of skilled nursing and long-term care sites say they’ve been scrambling to obtain doses of ...
If Congress Adds Dental Coverage to Medicare, Should All Seniors Get It?
Health equity advocates see President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to provide dental coverage to ...
Medicare Punishes 2,499 Hospitals for High Readmissions
The federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments ...
Democrats’ Plans to Expand Medicare Benefits May Pinch Advantage Plans’ Funding
One Medicare advocacy group is airing messages aimed at alarming the public and encouraging Congress not to make cuts to ...
Medicare Plans’ ‘Free’ Dental, Vision, Hearing Benefits Come at a Cost
Despite the high-powered advertising of the Medicare Advantage plans, beneficiaries still generally end up with significant out-of-pocket costs for vision ...