Medicare, the U.S. government-sponsored health insurance for seniors, offers numerous overlooked benefits crucial for ...

Federal Medicare overseers were poised this year to require Medicare Advantage insurers to send personalized mid-year reminders to enrollees who have not used the supplemental benefits included in ...

Coordination of benefits rules determines which insurer pays first when someone has multiple health plans, including Medicare. Medicare can challenge this process through recovery. Benefit ...

Enhanced Benefits in Medicare Advantage Plans The reason I say that is that these additional benefits can be very valuable from a financial point of view. Usually, there's an embedded set of ...

Medicare launched a new program called GUIDE (Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience) to support individuals diagnosed with ...

Medicare uses benefit periods to help measure and pay for care when a person is receiving inpatient treatment at a hospital or skilled nursing facility (SNF). The amount an individual needs to pay ...

Some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans provide special supplemental benefits for the chronically ill (SSBCIs) alongside standard benefits equivalent to Original Medicare (parts A and B).

Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a ...

At the end of June, CMS announced its new model, which came as part of the agency's bid to protect taxpayers from "fraud, ...

An Oct. 10 Federal Page article incorrectly reported that anyone eligible for Medicare prescription drug coverage who does not sign up for the new benefit by May 15 will have to pay higher-than ...