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Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some say the only way to maintain services and protect patients is to ...

As rural Medicare Advantage (MA) expansion grows, more insurers are terminating local providers from their networks and requiring rural seniors to travel much longer distances for care. Critics say ...

TEAM may encourage hospitals to improve the quality of the care their patients receive after being discharged. But it also ...

Fairview Health Services is alerting tens of thousands of patients with UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage insurance that they might lose in-network access to doctors and hospitals at one of ...

As the end of the open enrollment period for Medicare approaches, Minnesota officials are warning that major health care providers across the state soon won’t accept certain Medicare Advantage plans, ...

With Medicare Advantage enrollment approaching 55% of eligible beneficiaries, health systems across the country are grappling with a question that’s gone largely unaddressed in policy circles: What ...

What do I do if I don’t think I can afford my Medicare premiums? Are the unsolicited calls I’m getting from “Medicare” really offering me free medications, or is it a scam? What’s the difference ...

Jason Merkley, CEO of Brookings Health System in rural South Dakota, says private Medicare plans jeopardized the company's finances while impeding patient care. So last year, Brookings dropped four ...