Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health dropped Humana Medicare Advantage in Minnesota for 2025. North Platte, Neb.-based Great Plains Health no longer accepts any Medicare Advantage plans as of 2025.

I was surprised when I signed a hospital form stating that I was “under observation,” as the doctor decided whether to admit ...

The 2024 Medicare annual enrollment period is the only year that we have changed from the original Part D plan that we ...

In the federal lawsuit, the insurer claims the HHS and CMS quality ratings didn’t properly take into account disruptions ...

Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health completed the sale of its health plan to Elevance Health on Dec. 31.

Meanwhile, drugmakers are expected to raise prices on over 250 medications in the new year; rules for hospital price transparency are updated; and more.

This year, a new spending cap on medication goes into effect for the first time for people on Medicare. CBS News medical ...

The Wall Street Journal reports how UnitedHealth provided lists of potential, often obscure diagnoses to its doctors and forced them to weigh in on them for each Medicare Advantage patient, in order ...

New Medicare star ratings reveal a decline in plan quality across the board.

A key cost-saving provision of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) goes into effect in the new year, limiting annual out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs to $2,000 for Medicare beneficiaries.

AARP Statement on First Day the New $2,000 Cap on Annual Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs Goes into Effect, Benefiting Millions of ...

After 2024's increase of 3.2%, Social Security recipients will get a more modest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025: 2.5%. Why 2.5%? The COLA is tied to the inflation rate, says the Social ...