Health Affairs7d
Are Medicare Fee Schedules Appropriate For Commercial Populations?
The difficulty that stakeholders face in comparing contracts with different structures could be solved by a standardized ...
ConsumerAffairs12d
Medicare vs Medicaid
Medicare covers over 66 million people, and Medicaid covers over 80 million people, making them the largest U.S. agencies helping seniors and their caregivers pay for health care. Life in later ...
RFK Jr. Confused Medicare and Medicaid: Here's the Difference
The HHS Secretary nominee confused Medicare and Medicaid programs, though he would be responsible for them if confirmed. We ...
The Commonwealth Fund2d
Drug Costs and Their Impact on Care: Insights from Medicare Patients and Providers
Providers are sympathetic to Medicare enrollees’ concerns but don’t agree on their role in helping patients find less costly ...
The Commonwealth Fund6d
Do Medicare Advantage Provider Networks Change the Way Beneficiaries Use Health Care?
Medicare Advantage plans are popular, but some have limited provider networks, while and others require high cost sharing for ...
Moving past repealing Obamacare, Republicans still plan major health care cuts
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans may no longer be pushing to wholly repeal Obamacare, but big cuts to the ...
STAT26d
Former Trump health official: Medicare should cover Wegovy — but not negotiate its price
President Biden took a groundbreaking step in proposing to cover GLP-1 obesity medications under Medicare and Medicaid in November ... nearly $1 trillion in health care and social savings ...
Elon Musk's DOGE examines systems at $1.5 trillion Medicare and Medicaid agency
Two senior agency veterans focused on policy and operations are working with DOGE to review the agency overseeing Medicare ...
RFK JR. grilled on Medicare: What is Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B and Medicaid? What are they?
Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on if and how he would reform Medicaid and Medicare during his first confirmation ...
Health Affairs1mon
Medicaid And CHIP: Program Improvements And The Need To Protect Them
Today, leaders of the Medicaid program ... services and to compare those rates to Medicare reimbursement levels. These actions will help support more high-quality health care providers in caring ...