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Congress left it to states to determine whether private Medigap plans are sold to the more than 9 million disabled people younger than 65 who qualify for Medicare. The result: rules vary across the country.
The health law waived Medicare’s Part B deductible and dropped the 20 percent copayment for the preventive tests.
Experimental drugs might help desperate patients, but don’t count on an easy cure.
The prevention task force also recommends that patients with high blood sugar levels be referred to nutrition and exercise counseling. Under the health law, the services would be covered by insurance without cost sharing.
At NYU medical school, students learn to access huge troves of data to become doctors who understand the health care system, and individual ailments, better.
KHN consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers questions about Medicare beneficiaries’ costs associated with doctors who have concierge medicine practices, insulin pumps and respite care.
Trust fund solvent until 2030, but some seniors may see a big spike in Part B premiums.
Millions of Americans over 60 are risking illnesses by skipping their shots.
Dr. Michael LeFevre, who has stepped down as chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force after 10 years, describes how the health law changed the group’s work and the need to improve communication about it.
Two new procedures have been added to the list of what should be covered by insurance without charge to consumers under provisions of the health law.
Seniors can opt to stay in their marketplace plans when they become eligible for Medicare, but most lose their access to subsidies and failing to move into Medicare promptly results in premium penalties.
The federal-state health care program covers nearly half of all births, one-third of children across the country and two-thirds of people in nursing homes.
KHN also lists the six home health agencies that received Medicare's lowest rating of one star and the 195 agencies rated one and a half stars. These ratings, released July 2015, are based on performance from fall 2013 through last year.
After Supreme Court’s ruling, the HHS secretary says the administration faces challenges to enroll more people in marketplace plans and expand Medicaid.
Coverage for labor and delivery for young women who are on their parents’ health plan is not guaranteed under key health laws.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on healthcare subsidies soon. As the country awaits the decision, NewsHour interviewed people who would be personally affected by the ruling, and Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News answers their concerns.
No tax credit means no health insurance at all for tens of thousands of Georgians.
A rare bipartisan effort will scrap the troubled physician payment formula and transition to a system focused on new quality measures.
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