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Medicare Enrollment Proposals Would Speed Shift to Private Care
Medicare’s shift toward privatization could get a significant boost if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services embraces ...
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Medicare Advantage And Supplemental Long-Term Services And Supports: A Small Step In The Right Direction
While the new option for MA plans to offer supplemental LTSS is a small step in the right direction, the reality is that plan offerings are sparse and severely limited in scope. It’s crucial for ...
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Integrating Medicare and Medicaid: Policy Priorities to Improve Access and Care for Beneficiaries Under Age 65
To address the needs of dual-eligible people under 65, policymakers could focus on promoting better data collection and ...
When Hospitals Ditch Medicare Advantage Plans, Thousands of Members Get To Leave, Too
At least 41 hospital systems have dropped out of 62 Advantage plans serving all or parts of 25 states since July, according ...
Breakups between health systems and Medicare Advantage plans have increased. Sometimes, patients get to leave plans, too
It's usually challenging for patients to get out of Medicare Advantage. It can be easier if hospitals leave, first.
AmeriLife Marketing Group and Senior Health Insurance Direct Partner to Serve the Next Generation of Licensed Medicare Agents
Partnership signifies continued expansion for AmeriLife's Health Distribution network ...
Health care providers that work together save Medicare money
Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program ...
Medicare Advantage is covering more and more Americans − some because they don’t get to choose
Medicare Advantage − the private option that costs taxpayers extra and requires prior approval − is the default for some ...
HHS Proposes Eliminating Federal Medicare SHIP Funds
The HHS 2026 draft budget proposes eliminating federal funds for all State Health Insurance Assistance Programs.
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Breakups between health systems and Medicare Advantage plans have increased. Sometimes, patients get to leave plans, too
The plans can offer supplemental ... plan wouldn’t cover care in a rehabilitation facility. With traditional Medicare the only option this year for Great Plains Health patients, Nebraska ...
How to Access Your Parents’ Medicare: Enroll and Manage Their Care
Getting access to your parents' Medicare or Medicare Advantage accounts is easiest when they're healthy. But you still have ...