Medicare open enrollment for 2026 ends Dec 7. Learn how Medicare Advantage plans benefit seniors and impact insurance providers and payers.

GAO reveals extensive fraud and abuse in ACA marketplace plans leading to billions in improper subsidies and impacting U.S. health insurance costs.

Explore the increasing complexity and financial challenges beneficiaries face with Medicare Advantage marketing in 2025. Understand deceptive outreach, financial impacts, and roadmap for reforms.

U.S. Senate committee moves toward bipartisan agreement to extend ACA marketplace tax credits ahead of premium hikes and open enrollment deadline. Discussions include short-term extensions and long-term healthcare reforms.

Senator Rick Scott leads GOP efforts to develop alternatives to the Affordable Care Act, proposing new health savings accounts and sparking debate over marketplace impacts and coverage rules.

Iowa GOP lawmakers split on extending ACA premium tax credits as current subsidies face expiration in 2025, affecting health insurance premiums and market stability.

Medicare's 2025 reimbursement cuts are significantly impacting orthopedic surgeons, driving practice consolidation and raising concerns over future Medicare participation and patient access in musculoskeletal care.

Medicaid funding cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act jeopardize rural hospitals in Washington by increasing uncompensated care and risking closures, threatening access to essential healthcare services for 350,000 Medicaid enrollees.

The Joint Economic Committee critiques COVID-era enhanced premium tax credits for driving up healthcare costs without improving health outcomes, urging a reevaluation of subsidy policies to promote cost reduction and healthier populations.

CMS sets 2027 maximum fair prices for 15 high-cost Medicare drugs, cutting costs by up to 85% and saving $12 billion annually under Inflation Reduction Act measures.