Your Medicare Advantage broker may be more focused on making money than on your best interest as a result of a recent ruling by a Texas judge allowing Medicare Advantage brokers to reap payments that ...

Regarding the May 2 guest column by Douglas Beach praising Medicare Advantage plans (“My advocacy for older adults means supporting Medicare Advantage”), I couldn’t disagree more. Before I signed up ...

New findings reflect the differences in negotiating dynamics and financial incentives in the two markets. Hospital prices for commercial health plans are, on average, two to three times higher than ...

Most major insurers operate in both the commercial health insurance and Medicare Advantage (MA) markets. We investigated the ratio of commercial-to-MA prices negotiated by the same insurer, in the ...

With so many insurance types on the market, it can be challenging to determine which ones are valuable and which ones are worth skipping. This is especially important for seniors and older adults to ...

The lack of commercial coverage for digitally enabled care is a roadblock to affordable access to these medical services, according to the American Medical Association. The model of integrating ...

The court said an attempt to curtail payments for brokers was an overreach by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services In 2024, 32.8 million people were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, ...