If you think you can benefit from a new Medicare plan, now's the time to get moving. Many seniors on Medicare struggle to pay for healthcare during retirement and wind up spending an uncomfortably ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...

Differential coding by Medicare Advantage plans appeared to have pushed their risk scores higher than traditional Medicare's scores. Those greater risk scores led to $33 billion in extra revenue for ...

Implementing the Medicare $2 drug list model would have reduced out-of-pocket spending by 63% for Part D beneficiaries in 2021. The model caps cost-sharing at $2 for a 30-day supply of 101 generic ...

MA enrollees have similar utilization rates of dental, vision, and hearing benefits as TM beneficiaries, despite broader coverage in MA plans. Low awareness of coverage and significant out-of-pocket ...

This is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

Use them or lose them: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just proposed vacating a rule that would have alerted beneficiaries about their unused benefits Three in 10 Medicare Advantage ...

Intensive coding by Medicare Advantage (MA) plans raised enrollees' risk scores and may have allowed companies to pocket tens of billions of dollars more than if traditional Medicare had covered the ...

December is a time of nonstop errands: shopping for gifts, planning holiday travel and meals, and trying to beat year-end deadlines. Medicare Advantage beneficiaries have one more thing to add to ...