Some area seniors are having to switch gears with their medical teams heading into next year as a major health provider in the South Sound will no longer be a part of some Medicare Advantage plans.

Medicare's payment structure threatens independent physician practices, driving consolidation and increasing healthcare costs ...

Medicare vouchers are a proposed change to the Medicare system that would involve giving beneficiaries funds, in the form of a voucher, that they can use to buy private insurance. The voucher system, ...

They aim to shift incentives that some say gives too much power to the American Medical Association, a lobbying group that ...

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Most people over a certain age are familiar with going in for a colonoscopy, a routine method of screening for and preventing colon cancer. What they might not know is that the cost of the procedure ...

Data from the AHRQ Compendium of US Health Systems show that health system ownership of Medicare Advantage plans has increased since 2016. Enrollment in MA plans linked to health systems increased by ...