UnitedHealth now employs or contracts with about 10 percent of the physicians in the US. It’s...
Medicare
Medicare prices for all?
It’s as yet unclear what the Trump administration and the Republican Congress will do to...
Congress extends Medicare telehealth coverage through March 31...
Shortly after the onset of the Covid pandemic, Medicare began covering telehealth services for all...
Is Mehmet Oz fit to run Medicare agency?
Last month, Senator Elizabeth Warren, along with six other Democratic Senators, sent a letter to...
New physician survey finds prior authorization harms cancer...
Here’s yet another reason to opt for traditional Medicare over insurer-run Medicare Advantage...
Proposed Medicare Advantage rule aims to limit bad insurer...
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees Medicare, proposed...
Humana could be penalized over misleading provider directories
Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, is trying to hold Humana accountable for...
What will Dr. Oz do as head of Medicare agency?
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz to be the next head of the Centers for...
Insurer provider directories misleadingly include physicians who...
Max Blau reports for Pro Publica on how the big insurers provide their enrollees with misleading...
Medicare Advantage networks can be narrow and harmful
If you’re in a Medicare Advantage plan or thinking of joining one, you should worry about two...