The Latest Breaking News from Medicare

Federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the rate of rural hospital closures, but now some are struggling.

The companies and their rivals say their enormous size and scope makes them the best candidates to fix America’s health care system. After a new wave of mergers, they're under pressure to prove it.

Medicare coverage for at-home COVID-19 tests has ended, but the scams spawned by the temporary pandemic benefit could have lingering consequences for seniors.

Though supplemental benefits often draw seniors to Medicare Advantage plans, insurance experts question their value.

Millions of patients and their caregivers breathed a collective sigh of relief when drugmaker Eli Lilly recently announced its new experimental Alzheimer’s medication appears to slow cognitive decline by 35%. The Food and Drug Administration could approve the new treatment, donanemab, as soon as this year.

Hundreds of Australian families are on long waitlists to see a paediatrician and specialists say an overhaul is urgently needed.

To preserve access to care and protect the long-term viability of our Chicagoland hospitals, an increase in Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement is necessary, leaders of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce write.

Some seniors got dozens of COVID tests they never ordered. Bad actors may have used seniors' Medicare information to improperly bill the federal government — and could do it again, investigators say.

It is time to end the international embarrassment of the US being the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare