Seniors often report ever-convincing calls from people claiming to be from health care or Medicare, but these are fraudsters.

Medicare doesn’t provide coverage for routine dental visits, teeth cleanings, fillings, dentures, or most tooth extractions.

States are no longer required to report on the immunization status of children and pregnant people, according to a Dec. 30 letter from CMS to state health officials.  For 2026, CMS removed four ...

Some of 2026 changes have prompted significant concern, and experts have warned millions will lose access to health care ...

Starting Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will require health insurance agents and brokers to record all Medicare-related phone calls. At face value, having a recording of a call ...

States and health insurers received new guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) May 2 on how to prepare should Congress fund cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments or extend ...

A representative from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services was scheduled to dial in to a recent meeting of state regulators to hear concerns about Medicare administration. But CMS never joined ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to overhaul health insurance prior authorizations under a proposed rule published Tuesday. The regulation would require Medicare Advantage, Medicaid ...

Medicaid has expanded dramatically since the pandemic, and we firmly believe that abuse must be stamped out and costs kept ...

Medicare's annual enrollment period is on the horizon, and the Biden administration announced Thursday that premiums in Medicare Advantage (MA) are set to decrease by nearly 8% next year. The Centers ...

When you're enrolling in Medicare, it's important to understand everything it does and doesn't cover — even for medical procedures that you may not anticipate happening to you. For ...

Rooke-Ley is a senior fellow at the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research at the Brown University School of Public Health and the American Economic Liberties Project. With major federal ...