This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...

There is a growing mental health crisis among older adults: 20–30 percent of older adults older than the age of 65 report symptoms of anxiety or depression, and older adults exhibit the highest rate ...

Doctors providing care for Medicare patients face yet another bureaucratic payment cut in 2025. Thankfully, Congress is considering granting them relief. But doctors need more than another temporary ...

Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors' medical assistant, who asks how she's doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing ...

Jason Bleak runs Battle Mountain General Hospital, a small facility in a remote Nevada gold-mining town that he describes as "out here in the middle of nowhere." When several representatives from ...