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Medicare Advantage Boom: Soaring Costs & Unclear Quality
TheStreet.com· 3 days agoAs Medicare Advantage enrollment skyrockets, the Medicare Rights Center calls for improved data collection to ensure quality care, fair pricing, and responsible ...
Millions of Americans need drugs like Ozempic: Will it bankrupt the health care system?
Medical Xpress· 6 days ago"As important as these drugs are, they will not do any good for the millions of patients who cannot...
CMS Redesigns the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program Beginning in 2025 | JD Supra
JD Supra· 3 days agoThe Final Program Instructions reflect a newly defined standard Part D benefit design through several changes or enhancements to the Part D program beginning ...
American couples aged 65-plus need $350,000 to cover health expenses in retirement — why it's so...
Moneywise via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoPart B: Covers outpatient care. You'll pay premiums, which are $174.70 per month for most retirees...
Provider Impacts from Recent Health Care Cyberattacks
Reuters· 5 days agoChange Healthcare is a claims processing network that is part of Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. On February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare experienced ...
Does BCBS offer Medicare Advantage plan for feds? An expert weighs in.
Federal Times· 3 days agoThe following is a question submitted by a Federal Times reader to columnist Kevin Moss, a senior editor at Consumers’ Checkbook and expert on federal employee health insurance plans for civil ...
Social Security Matters
The Post and Courier· 1 day agoAlso, should all retirees receive COLA or is there an exception? Dear Retired: Your questions are fairly simple but, nevertheless, often perplexing to...
Mississippi 3rd-most affordable place for retirement: report
WJTV Jackson· 6 days agoJACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – For those looking for inexpensive places to spend their golden years, a...
9 ways for early retirees to cover health care costs
AOL· 7 days agoPlanning for early retirement can be exciting. Unlike those who retire at 65 or later, early retirees don’t qualify for Medicare, the government health care program for older ...
For some rural communities, a stripped-down hospital is better than none at all
Stateline via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoOn many days, some small hospitals in rural Mississippi admit just one patient — or none at all. The...