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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is changing the method it uses to calculate payments to Medicare Advantage (MA)...

“In addition to the cost comparison, it is worth noting that seniors save $2,000 or so by not having to buy Medigap insurance. And they get much better drug coverage.”

Medicare Advantage is the only place in the entire health care system where health plans specialize in various chronic conditions and advertise to attract patients with those conditions.

“When a Medicare beneficiary suffers a stroke, how much does this cost original Medicare?  When a beneficiary with a Medicare Advantage plan suffers a stroke, the federal government has shed a claim to a private insurance company, thus saving taxpayers potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars,”

Analysis of the 2024 Medicare Trustees' Report shows the Hospital Trust Fund will reach insolvency in 2036, says CRFB. by Committee for a Responsible Federal...

By Joe Albanese (From the Washington Examiner) Politicians usually avoid proposing changes to Medicare in an election year, but the program’s rising costs and expected insolvency within the next five...

A missed phone call costs a Medicare Advantage plan $190 million. When does the failure to answer a phone call in 8 seconds cost the...

Medicare enrollees are wondering if perhaps there might be a third option to traditional fee-for-service Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Shawn McGuyer, a retiree from Texas,...

Medicare has cut payments to doctors for 2024 by 1.25 percent due to a 3.34 percent reduction in the “conversion factor” used to calculate...

A breast cancer patient could save $1,500 per year in out-of-pocket costs if Medicare reimbursed hospitals and independent health care providers equally for the...