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...
Diane Archer
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...
Some hospitals gouge Americans because they can
One of the many benefits of Medicare is that your costs are the same no matter where you get care in a community. Consequently, people with Medicare do not have to “shop” for where they...
UnitedHealth’s denials of critical rehab services is under...
Stat News reports on United HealthCare’s secret rules that deny Medicare Advantage enrollees critical and costly rehab care when they most need it. UnitedHealth literally singled out people...
Coronavirus: Beware of the latest Covid strain
If you’re careful and lucky, you have yet to fall prey to the latest strain of Covid hitting people in the US, JN.1. But, large numbers of Americans are coming down with it, reports Adriel...
For-profit hospitals urge CMS to hold Medicare Advantage plans...
Over the last several decades, US hospitals, particularly the for-profit hospitals, generally have not been the best of allies with the organizations representing people with Medicare and other...
Employer-based health care doesn’t work for people with...
About 60 percent of people who are not over 65 have employer-sponsored health insurance, reports the Kaiser Family Foundation. But, a significant portion of people eligible for employer coverage...
What’s long flu and are you at risk?
Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about people with “long Covid,” who cannot shed the Covid virus and develop chronic and serious symptoms that can last a long time...