Health Affairs

Medicare Coverage Of Medical Technologies In A New Era

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads.” Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial ...
Health Affairs

The Promise And Pitfalls Of Site-Neutral Payments In Medicare

From 2021 to 2022, Medicare spending increased by 5.9 percent, from $689 billion in 2021 to $944 billion in 2022, reaching 21 percent of total National Health Expenditures. Increased Medicare spending ...
The Heritage Foundation

Medicare Advantage Needs Reform, Not Cuts

The Biden Administration is proposing cuts to Medicare Advantage, the popular private plan alternative to the outdated traditional Medicare program. These cuts would undermine Medicare Advantage plans ...
The American Spectator

Why Won’t Medicare Give Up Its Opioid Addiction?

Medicare will pay for OxyContin immediately, no questions asked. But the new FDA-approved pain medication, which doesn’t risk addiction? That requires prior authorization, mandatory trials of cheaper ...
NPR

Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...
Center for American Progress

Ending Overpayment in Medicare Advantage

A new Center for American Progress analysis finds that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid by 22 to 39 percent; savings from curbing MA overpayments should be used to improve the Medicare ...
The Heritage Foundation

Time To Fix Doctor’s Medicare Payment Once and for All

Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...
NPR

Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors' medical assistant, who asks how she's doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing ...
PBS

Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade, report says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on and millions of young people are counting on will run short of money to pay full benefits within the next decade, the ...
WHYY

Medicare open enrollment begins Oct. 15. Here’s what to know about changes in Pa., N.J. and Del.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...
The American Prospect

Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.

Welcome to “Trump’s Beautiful Disaster,” a pop-up newsletter about the Republican tax and spending bill, one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in a generation. Sign up for the newsletter ...