The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...

Medicare recipients suffering from obesity must pay out of pocket for weight loss drugs like Wecovy and Zepbound.

Note that only Medicare Part A (for hospital stays) is free; most people pay for added coverage. Also, Medicare does not typically cover medical expenses if you're outside the U.S. A record ...

Unlike those who qualify based on age, individuals under 65 with disabilities must meet specific requirements before automatically gaining Medicare coverage. In most cases, they must have received ...

09. Over the past two years, UnitedHealth Group seemed immune from the higher costs and systemic changes in the Medicare Advantage program that bedeviled its rivals. Until now. UnitedHealth, ...

A nonpartisan analysis said millions of Americans could lose Medicaid health insurance coverage under different Republican Congressional proposals to cut spending to support President Donald Trump ...

Democrats reintroduced the Medicare For All Act, aiming to establish universal ... France and Canada — have some form of ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unveiling plans to give researchers access to data on Medicare and Medicaid enrollees with autism, though experts are doubtful that ...

A new executive order signed Tuesday by President Trump directs Congress to change a key provision of the law allowing Medicare drug price negotiations, a move that would fix one of the drug ...

Journal Editorial Report: Can a $5,000 cash payment help boost the U.S. birth rate? The GOP hasn’t yet rolled out a draft Medicaid bill, but Democrats and their media allies are already pounding ...

Washington — House Republicans are facing the difficult task of slashing $1.5 trillion — with hundreds of billions likely in Medicaid spending — to help offset the cost of President Trump's ...

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff have covered Medicaid for a combined 30 years. May 6, 2025 In 1989, New Hampshire’s ...