Medicare

For this reason, Medicare imposes fairly significant late-enrollment penalties for those who postpone signing up.  To encourage everyone to sign up when they first become eligible, the program increases premiums based on how long a beneficiary waits to enroll.  ...

All hospitals must now give Medicare recipients notice when they have not been admitted but are merely under "observation" status. The notice requirement is part of a law enacted in 2015 but that just took effect.

If a beneficiary disagrees with a coverage decision, there are reconsideration and appeals procedures within the Medicare program, and the likelihood of winning is high.

The nation's elderly and disabled Social Security recipients will receive a 1.5 percent increase in payments in 2014 . . . ...

Sorting through Medicare supplemental policy offerings can be confusing. Here are some suggestions to help you choose.

A federal appeals court has again said that 230,000 Medicare Part D beneficiaries who were erroneously mailed a premium refund . . .

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's proposed budget would radically reshape both the Medicare and Medicaid programs . . .

Doctors must now meet face-to-face with their patients who are receiving home health care if the patient's visits are to be reimbursed . . .

Retirees cannot disenroll from Medicare Part A without also losing their Social Security benefits and refunding . . .