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 ...

Medicare Advantage (MA) is the private plan option in the Medicare program. Enrollment in the program has surged in the past decade and now tops 30 million — nearly half of all Medicare enrollees.

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 ...

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. Taxpayers will send an estimated $86 billion to Medicare Advantage insurers this year to pay for ...

In March 2023, a number of ads online claimed a "Grocery Benefit Program" or "Healthy Foods Allowance" would allow seniors to receive money each month for groceries, often by using a Medicare program.

Stronger-than-expected economic growth last year drove improvements to the fiscal health of the trust funds that finance Medicare and Social Security, according to annual reports released Monday by ...