Medicare Advantage enrollment is up, and people with low incomes and people of color are enrolling in Medicare Advantage at disproportionate rates. A new study published in JAMA by Avni Gupta, BDS...
Diane Archer
Medicare Advantage needs serious fixes; $88 billion in...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a non-partisan independent agency, last week projected $88 billion in government overpayments to Medicare Advantage in 2024 and debated the value of...
Hospital billing practices frequently leave people without...
The Lown Institute reports that if you aren’t able to pay your hospital bills, you have a one in three chance of being sued. On top of that, some hospitals are refusing to allow you to schedule...
Biden brought down the price of insulin significantly; a Trump...
Drug prices remain out of control, and there’s a lot that President Biden could still do to bring them down. But, Americans should give President Joe Biden credit for reducing the cost of...
AMA wants Medicare to pay doctors more
The AMA is telling Congress not to cut Medicare payments to physicians. The AMA would be smart to speak up for patients and the problems their physicians have getting patients the care they need in...
Why won’t the government protect people from prior...
Lauren Sausser reports for KFF Health News on the failure of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to protect people enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans from prior authorization rules that...
FDA allows Florida to import lower-cost drugs from Canada
Finally, in some part thanks to former President Trump and Governor Ron DeSantis, as well as to the Biden Administration’s Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the US plans to open its borders to...
Take advantage of the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period
If you’re in a Medicare Advantage plan, you should seriously consider taking advantage of the Medicare Advantage open enrollment period between January 1 and March 31 that allows you to switch...
Elevance Health sues to undo changes to Medicare Advantage...
For years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) has been giving additional money to Medicare Advantage plans that get four and five-star ratings. The goal was to promote quality, but...
Cigna plans to sell its Medicare Advantage business
The Wall Street Journal reports that Cigna is planning to sell its Medicare Advantage book of business. For nearly $4 billion, why not? While Cigna is a big health insurer, it has the smallest...