The Save MEDICARE Act is looking to tighten oversight of Medicare Advantage plans.

A retiree who received the 2.8% Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 already knows the drill: some of that raise disappeared into a bigger Medicare Part B premium before the first check ...

An 80-year-old widow leaves the hospital after a fall, cannot safely live alone, and moves into an assisted living community.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 2 issued a proposed rule that would increase Medicare hospital outpatient ...

Eligibility estimates contract from ~13.3 million with obesity/overweight to ~3.8 million Bridge-eligible Part D enrollees after excluding diabetes, OSA, MASH, and current GLP‑1 users. Modeled ...

CMS wants to raise Medicare home health payments by 2.4% in 2027 while arming itself with sweeping new authority to remove “problematic” and noncompliant providers — and recoup their payments — across ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 1 issued its calendar year 2027 proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system. The rule proposes a 2.4% update, which includes a 3.1% ...

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A new CMS proposed rule would reduce the burden of prior authorizations by further shortening payer decision timeframes and ...

Medicare Advantage plans use prior authorization to manage health care use. In recent years, these practices have come under intense scrutiny from policy makers. Using beneficiary enrollment data and ...