Back in January 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sanctioned Cigna for...
Your Coverage Options
Don’t trust your health plan’s provider directory
Traditional Medicare’s “one size fits all” approach offers a wide choice of...
Will over-the-counter hearing aids help people with Medicare?
Medicare does not cover hearing aids. But, more than 20 million people with Medicare suffer from...
People with Medicare and Medicaid in Special Needs Plans at...
A paper in Health Affairs by Marc A. Cohen et al. explains that people with Medicare and Medicaid...
New Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period: January through...
Beginning in January 2019, there is a new Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (MAOEP). You...
What’s a Medicare Special Needs Plan?
Medicare offers commercial health insurance coverage to help people with special needs...
Administration proposes cutting Medicare drug coverage
A few months ago, the Trump administration proposed cutting the prescription drugs Medicare covers...
People with serious health needs more likely to disenroll from...
A new study by David Meyers, Brown University School of Public Health, et al., of people enrolled...
Medicare Advantage plan “honor system” can breed...
The federal government today pays commercial health insurance companies nearly $200 billion a year...
Plan ahead for a hospital visit: Talk to the people you love...
Few of us think about preparing in advance for a hospital visit, for someone we love, let alone...