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...
Diane Archer
Multigenerational family housing can work
Paula Span reports for the New York Times on multigenerational family residences. Think of them as family compounds, with a main house and a separate unit for the extended family. These...
Case study: Costco saves one couple hundreds of dollars over...
If you ask me, often the smartest way to save money on prescription drugs is to import them from abroad. But, though no one has ever reported a safety issue from importing drugs from verified...
New government rule lets Medicare Advantage pocket tens of...
For years, the federal government has been overpaying Medicare Advantage plans tens of millions of dollars for wrongful or fraudulent diagnosis codes without trying to recoup almost any of that...
Trump advises Republicans not to cut Social Security and Medicare
Surprise, surprise. Donald Trump is advising Republicans that “under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security.” Time will tell whether he...
Poll: Many more older adults delayed care because of cost in 2022
Nearly four in ten Americans reported that they or a family member delayed health care last year because of the cost. That’s an all-time high and a huge increase from the year before. Even with...
Case study: Medicare Advantage delays, denials and consequences
Rick Timmins, a retiree in Washington State, reports the delays and denials he has faced trying to get care while enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan in Washington State. The costs of these delays...
Shortage of home health aides undermines people’s ability...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly hard for people to get the care they need at home. The Wall Street Journal reports on a woman with ALS who needed to rely on seven different...
House speaker McCarthy opens door to Medicare and Social...
In an opinion piece for The Hill, Max Richtman, CEO of National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, writes about the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy’s likely intent to cut Social...
Get ready for more prescription drug price hikes
We know pharmaceutical companies are greedy. Most, if not all, companies are greedy and will do what they can to maximize profits. But, Congress continues to allow that greed. As long as it does, we...