Until the beginning of this year, if your doctor recommended you get a breast sonogram in addition to a mammogram as preventive care tests, Medicare would cover the full cost for both once a year...
Diane Archer
AI is increasing health care costs
Ayo Mseka reports for InsuranceNewsNet that artificial intelligence is increasing health care costs for two principal reasons. First, people are seeking treatment more often after using AI to...
Cap on insulin costs improved medication adherence for some...
More than 13 million people with Medicare have diabetes. And, more than three million of them use insulin. A new study, published in JAMA, out of USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy &...
Let’s have a free market for drugs, medical equipment and...
If we want to make health care affordable, we need to rein in prices. One way to do so is to enable a free market for drugs and medical equipment, writes Dean Baker for the Center for Economic and...
Beginning July 2026, Medicare will cover GLP-1s for people who...
Beginning this July, Medicare will cover Wegovy and Zepbound for people over 65 who want to lose weight under the pilot GLP-1 bridge program. Medicare’s coverage is temporary and circumvents...
Most people with Medicare have annual incomes under $45,000
Cost can be a serious obstacle to care for all Americans, including millions of people with Medicare. A new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds that half of people with Medicare have annual incomes...
Medicare Advantage insurers treat Californians a lot better than...
A new KFF report reveals the enormous range in out-of-pocket limits for people in Medicare Advantage plans, depending upon the state they live in. New Yorkers and New Jerseyans face limits over...
US has poorest health outcomes of any high income country
Every country struggles with high health care costs and populations that are aging, who will need a lot of health care. But, a new Commonwealth Fund report finds that the US has the poorest health...
How to improve private health insurance, even if it can’t be...
Today, hundreds of corporate health insurers offer thousands of health plans and treat much of their data on the care they cover and patient outcomes as proprietary. They have a powerful incentive to...
Seven reasons private health insurance can’t be fixed
Private health insurance can’t be fixed. It’s insanely expensive and getting more so with each passing year. Private health insurers are either unable or unwilling to bring down costs...