Only about half of older adults in the US have health insurance that covers dental care, according to new research out of Harvard. Millions cannot afford to pay out of pocket for dental care...
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Rents soar for older adults in private-equity owned senior...
Rebecca Burns reports for The Lever on the plight of older adults living in private-equity-owned senior housing. The bottom line: Watch out, private equity is buying up senior housing and hiking up...
Coronavirus: When public health emergency ends, so will some...
The President has declared May 11 as the date for an end to the Covid-19 public health emergency. Rachel Cohrs reports for Stat that once the public health emergency ends, older adults and people...
Extra benefits in Medicare Advantage: Truth or Fiction?
A new GAO report reveals that the government has little data to know whether Medicare Advantage plans are offering additional benefits and whether their enrollees are using these benefits...
Medicare Advantage plans denied two million prior authorization...
Imagine that you were given a wad of cash to deliver a service when necessary. And, it was in your discretion to determine when the service was necessary. That’s effectively the way Medicare...
US continues to spend more for poorer quality care than other...
Once again, The Commonwealth Fund is out with a report showing that we spend way more than other developed countries for our health care and yet get far less for our money. We spend more per person...
Bernie Sanders’ HELP committee priorities
Jonathan Cohn reports for the Huffington Post on Bernie Sanders’ move to chair the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee. Under Sanders’ leadership, the HELP...
Medicare patients with liver cancer face $10,000 in...
Even with Medicare, out-of-pocket costs for people with liver cancer can be unaffordable. A recent study found that Medicare patients must spend $10,000 out of pocket for medical and hospital care in...
Advocates launch pledge campaign to protect Social Security and...
Social Security Works, More Perfect Union, Indivisible, MoveOn, and many other prominent organizations have launched a campaign demanding that members of Congress pledge to protect Social Security...
Government overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans grow, while...
Earlier this month, MedPAC, the agency that oversees Medicare payments, released a slide deck showing ever-increasing government overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans.The total overpayments...