Medicare Advantage now covers more than 34 million beneficiaries, according to KFF. That is more than half of everyone who is eligible for Medicare. Beneficiaries are likely drawn in by perks that ...

Federal officials resolved more than a decade ago to crack down on whopping government overpayments to private Medicare Advantage health insurance plans, which were siphoning off billions of tax ...

Large private health insurance companies routinely denied requests to get rehabilitation or other post-hospital specialized care, federal agency says.

Medicare Advantage health plans recently blasted a government proposal that would keep their reimbursement rates flat next year while making other payment changes. But some health policy experts say ...

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their ...

For 18 months, a Medicare Advantage plan from the health insurer Anthem has been covering a prescription medication for Richard Godek of Winchester. The medication reduces the 81-year-old’s risk of ...

The closer you get to age 65, the more you hear about Medicare. Like seemingly all health insurance programs, the federal government's insurance program for retired adults can be hard to understand, ...