The “No Unreasonable Payments, Coding, or Diagnoses for the Elderly” (No UPCODE) Act...
What's Buzzing
Nursing home residents in for-profit facilities continue to face...
Camille Baker reports for The New York Times on how owners of two nursing homes in New Jersey...
High percentage of the workforce faces unexpected disability...
Pretty much no matter who you are, retirement is challenging, emotionally, socially and...
Poll: What do Americans think about their health care?
Access to care is increasingly becoming a problem for all Americans, in the wake of the Trump...
2026: Medicare drug coverage and costs
Whether you are enrolled in Traditional Medicare (which the government administers directly) or a...
Your Health & Wellness
Practicing yoga can improve your sleep
A meta-analysis of 30 trials in more than 12 countries found that regular high-intensity yoga is...
Almost 10 percent of Americans say they have or have had cancer...
A new Gallup survey finds that almost 10 percent of Americans say they have or have had cancer...
Community living for people with dementia can have tremendous...
Today, some 500,000 people in the US are diagnosed with dementia each year. Black Americans are...
How to reduce your risk of falling
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than one in four people over 65...
Pay attention to your feet!
Pay attention to your feet! You need them. Talk to your doctor if they look different, feel...
Your Coverage Options
2026: Medicare drug coverage and costs
Whether you are enrolled in Traditional Medicare (which the government administers directly) or a...
The tradeoff between “extra” benefits and fewer...
Medicare Advantage insurers offer “extra” benefits to lure people to sign up for a...
Insurers misuse prior authorization even for simple treatments
One big insurer, Anthem, denied coverage inappropriately to a woman who needed medicine to ward off...
2026: What are your Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket costs?
The federal government is raising the Part B Medicare premium to $202.90 in 2026, almost 10 percent...
Prior authorization: What is to be done?
If there’s one thing about health insurance that just about everyone can agree on, it is that...