Knowing how Medicare is evolving and which benefits you can rely on will help you focus on whether Original Medicare or a particular Medicare Advantage plan will serve you best. Medical costs are ...

UnitedHealth Group investors, stunned by missteps at the once predictable healthcare giant, are warily expecting strategic ...

Under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the HHS secretary negotiates directly with manufacturers on the prices ...

Even for patients covered by Medicare, annual out-of-pocket costs for lifesaving cancer treatments taken in pill form have often exceeded $10,000-until recently. Thanks to changes in Medicare Part ...

The best time to think about your parents' Medicare is when they're healthy. Medical care becomes a bigger part of life as we age and having a Plan B for managing that care is necessary to ensure ...

But within his incoming tax bill, and outside of this bill with future potential legislation, are some changes on their way to the Medicare program. This program serves millions of American ...

The use of preferred pharmacy networks tripled to 44% among Medicare Advantage drug plans over the past decade and grew from 70% to 98% among stand-alone Medicare drug plans, researchers found.

WSJ The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said. The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s ...

The Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth Group for possible Medicare fraud, according to a Wall Street Journal report. While the exact nature of the ...

MIXED SIGNALS — Uncertainty lingers for the Medicare Advantage industry as two of the nation’s top insurers on Thursday painted different pictures of the program’s financial stability.

The Supreme Court sided on Tuesday with the Department of Health and Human Services in a dispute over the rate under Medicare the government pays to hospitals that serve low-income patients.

If they were serious about this goal, they would start by overhauling something they long have championed: Medicare Advantage. The program, in which private insurers oversee older people’s ...