Short-Term Health Insurance May Fill the Medicare Gap If you’re healthy and your 65th birthday is just around the corner, a short-term plan may be enough to fill the gap until you’re eligible ...

Medicare is big business, recently providing healthcare coverage to 68 million people. It changes a little or a lot every ...

Confused about dental, vision and hearing coverage in retirement? This guide explains Medicare's role, shopping for plans and ...

Medicare recipients who take expensive prescriptions will get a break this year with a $2,000 cap on drug costs.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) set out to make healthcare more affordable. It had various effects on Medicare, such as ...

The General Enrollment Period provides an opportunity to make up for a past oversight — the failure to enroll in Part B.

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Worse, if you miss key deadlines when signing up for Medicare, you could have a gap in coverage, miss out on valuable tax breaks, or get stuck with a penalty for the rest of your life.

Say goodbye to the "donut hole" gap in coverage Until recently ... another sum was spent -- when your insurance coverage then resumed. Now there's a Medicare drug deductible of $590 for 2025.