Patients who start dialysis with Medicare Advantage have an 18% lower likelihood of being wait-listed for a kidney transplant ...

Medicare Advantage plans cost taxpayers $37.2 billion more than Original Medicare yet deliver similar outcomes. Researchers found enrollees in both plans have nearly identical rates of service ...

UnitedHealthcare says it’s dropping some of its Medicare Advantage plans that collectively cover 600,000 people.

A district court in Texas has ruled against the Department of Health and Human Services, deciding to vacate several ...

Customer satisfaction with Medicare Advantage plans is down, according to a new survey from J.D. Power. But some financial ...

Reed O’Connor’s ruling is a setback for smaller MA plans — and efforts to curb predatory marketing to seniors.

Medicare Advantage plans promise more benefits than Original Medicare, but new research suggests these extras may not deliver ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a new program to test prior authorization in original ...

A JAMA study published Aug. 18 found that plan design changes by Medicare Part D insurers, particularly for Medicare Advantage plans, following passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 could ...

Traditional Medicare will face greater use of prior authorizations under a pilot program by the Centers for Medicare & ...

Overall Medicare Advantage plans denied 6.4% of prior authorization requests in 2023. Prior authorization was needed 1.8 times per beneficiary, according to Kaiser.