New letters urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand Medicare and Medicaid to include FDA-approved anti-obesity medications.
More than 65 million Americans rely on the program for their health insurance, with a significant proportion of those being seniors facing retirement.
Medicare is big business, recently providing healthcare coverage to 68 million people. Before the 2024 election, fully 94% of surveyed seniors said it was very or extremely important to protect Medicare,
The U.S. government said on Wednesday it will consider opportunities to "bring greater transparency" for the Medicare drug price negotiation program under President Donald Trump's administration. The price negotiation process was established under former President Joe Biden's signature Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
In a confirmation hearing for his nomination to head the $1.7 trillion Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confused two of the massive healthcare programs he would be overseeing as secretary — Medicare and Medicaid — and insisted he was not anti-vaccine.
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Will Social Security, Medicare payments be delayed? What we know about Trump’s federal funding freeze
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Medicare, Social Security Immune From Trump’s Federal Freeze
Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid: What to Know About Trump's Funding Freeze
Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits and food stamps won’t be affected, the White House press secretary said Tuesday. But she dodged questions about other programs.
■ Visit Medicare.gov and search for “filing a claim.” The information provided will explain how to submit a claim by downloading form CMS-1490S, Patient Request for Medical Payment. The form has instructions to include an itemized bill and supporting documents and where you need to send everything.
Three of President Donald Trump's cabinet picks prepared for skepticism and intense grilling from Democratic senators during their confirmation hearings Thursday.
Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed remedies still differ radically.
Kennedy about his views on vaccines and abortion, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was also asked how he'd run the two largest government health insurance programs − Medicare and Medicaid.
Cigna has deleveraged substantially after acquiring Express Scripts in late 2018 when Cigna's debt rose to over $42 billion, or debt/capital of 51%. Management has made good progress on its deleveraging goal in recent years through debt repayment and profit growth.
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