Understanding how Medicare and Medicaid work together can be crucial for millions of Americans relying on Social Security.

The Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund, which pays inpatient care for people 65 and up, will be insolvent and unable to pay full benefits, by 2036, according to this latest projection. At that ...

On a day when federal regulators announced a big jump in Medicare Advantage payments for fiscal 2026, long-term care ...

A universal Medicare system for health care would have a lower overhead cost and would be more efficient than commercial ...

Medicare and Medicaid can be ... urgent and elective outpatient primary-care visits is critical for Medicaid patients. This intervention, like smoothing hospital surgical-patient flow, divides ...

Medicare covers health care expenses mainly for people ... that would have extended coverage of drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy. The rule was not expected to be finalized until Trump took office.

President Donald Trump on Friday dropped a Biden administration proposal to have Medicare cover obesity drugs, including popular but costly GLP-1 treatments such as Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and Eli ...

But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it may reconsider coverage of those drugs in the future, according to a fact sheet on the rule. The proposal would have given millions more ...