MVP Health Care and the University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN) have added heart disease and diabetes support to their Medicare Advantage plan benefits to improve chronic disease management for...
Nearly nine out of every ten American seniors had not changed Medicare plans with less than a month left in the 2022 open enrollment season, according to a MedicareGuide.com survey.
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Better Medicare Alliance (BMA) has penned a letter to CMS detailing a number of Medicare Advantage policy recommendations regarding Medicare Advantage benefits and care coordination, health equity, and...
Zero-dollar health plans are bringing average Medicare Advantage premiums lower, continuing an ongoing trend, an eHealth report found.
eHealth surveyed over 4,200 Medicare beneficiaries who were...
Humana has announced a multi-year, Medicare Advantage value-based contract to extend access to value-based care for members in Minnesota.
“This value-based agreement for Humana Medicare...
Medicare Advantage, fee-for-service Medicare, and Medicaid received higher member satisfaction scores than individual health insurance market plans and employer-sponsored health plans, according to a...
Humana’s Medicare Advantage value-based care efforts helped improve hospitalization rates and preventive care during the coronavirus pandemic, the payer shared in its value-based care...
Medicare Advantage has seen a lot of growth in recent years and that trend is set to continue into 2022, as evident in the number of plan offerings for the Medicare Advantage 2022 open enrollment...
There has been a lot of valuable conversation around the benefits that Medicare Advantage health plans can offer to consumers, but now providers have offered their perspectives on this form of health...
From the beginning, it was clear that seniors’ lives would be turned upside down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but Humana’s survey of over 1,000 seniors reveal the severe toll...
Medicare Advantage plans offer members additional benefits and require less spending from the federal government compared to fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, according to a report commissioned by Better...
More Medicare Advantage health plans will deliver social determinants of health and non-medical supplemental benefits in 2022 and the existence of $0 premium plans continues to grow, an Avalere study...
Cost-sharing waivers for COVID-19 hospitalizations have the potential to significantly reduce out-of-pocket healthcare spending, as long as they are comprehensive and cover all hospital-related...
Humana has announced several Medicare Advantage expansions for Tennessee in 2022, including a Dual Eligible Special Needs Medicare Advantage (D-SNP) plan and COVID-19 testing, treatment, and...
UnitedHealthcare saw its revenue rise 11 percent in the third quarter of 2021 to hit $55.9 billion, the payer announced in its earnings report.
“Third quarter 2021 operating earnings were $2.7...
Medicare Advantage special needs plan members are more racially and ethnically diverse, are in lower income brackets, and tend to be sicker member populations than traditional Medicare or Medicare...
Most Medicare beneficiaries did not review their health plan options during open enrollment in 2018, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) issue brief.
“The marketplace of Medicare...
Over nine in ten Medicare Advantage-prescription drug plans (94.26 percent) received a 3.5 star rating or higher on the 2022 Medicare Advantage Star Ratings, with an average star rating of 4.37 stars,...
Updated 11/10/21: This article has been updated to elucidate the differences between Medicare Advantage beneficiaries' and fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries' use of telehealth and...
As the 2022 Medicare Advantage open enrollment period approaches, payers are revealing their 2022 Medicare Advantage benefits.
Five major payers shared the updates to their benefit offerings for the...
