As the new head of the Medicare program, I encourage everyone with Medicare to take full advantage of this year's Open Enrollment period. This is your once-a-year opportunity to take a fresh look at ...

Medicare Advantage can be a cost-effective alternative to original Medicare. Before signing up for an Advantage plan, make ...

Enrollment for Medicare is open until Dec. 7. During this time, Medicare enrollees can switch between Original Medicare ...

The more information a person can provide counselors during their meeting, the better. People are encouraged to bring all of their Medicare and health insurance cards, notices and letters from their ...

In addition, top-ranked states had low Medicare program spending per person, which helped keep costs down for beneficiaries ...

Some Medicare Advantage subscribers could lose their plan as major insurers scale back coverage. Last week, we got some answers from expert Tim Jopp with Legacy Health Insurance about the changes. He ...

For now, the most reasonable stance is watchful waiting: acknowledging the real problems WISeR seeks to address, recognizing ...

Thank you Chairman Pitts, ranking member Pallone, and members of the Subcommittee for the opportunity to speak this morning on redesign of Medicare’s outdated benefit structure. Restructuring the ...

In Minnesota, the second-largest Medicare Advantage health insurer — Minneapolis-based UCare — announced it was exiting the ...

Minnesota Aging Pathways (until last month, it was known as the Senior LinkAge Line) offers free help over the phone at 1-800 ...

In the coming year, more than half of Medicare's 66 million beneficiaries may opt for private Medicare Advantage plans, a development likely to put further strain on an already overstretched ...

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