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Medicare Advantage is about to look very different in 2026, and not in ways most enrollees will welcome. Federal regulators ...

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 hospitals serve central and northern Texas, including Neary’s home in Dallas. But in ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. announced a 5.06% average increase in the government's final reimbursement rates for 2026 Medicare Advantage health plans run by private insurers, more than double the increase ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...

UnitedHealth Group’s massive health insurance business will drop Medicare Advantage health plans covering more than 600,000 people as it tries to reverse its financial decline. It’s one of several ...

An analysis of differential coding patterns between Medicare Advantage (MA) and Traditional Medicare (TM) plans estimated how much coding differs between insurers and how much extra revenue insurers ...

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries with mental health diagnoses see more nurse practitioners and fewer internal medicine and emergency medicine specialists after switching to traditional Medicare.

CarePlus offers Medicare Advantage plans in Florida. The plans provide hospitalization and medical insurance, along with prescription drug coverage. Extra benefits may include dental and vision care.

Medicare Advantage — the commercial alternative to traditional Medicare — is drawing down federal health care funds, costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of US$83 billion a year.