Health Affairs

Flex Cards In Medicare Advantage: A Closer Look At Impact and Challenges

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 ...
Health Affairs

Medicare’s Mental Health Care Problem

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 ...
The Heritage Foundation

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Now or Never?

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 ...
NPR

Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...
The Heritage Foundation

Time To Fix Doctor’s Medicare Payment Once and for All

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 ...
Center for American Progress

Ending Overpayment in Medicare Advantage

A new Center for American Progress analysis finds that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid by 22 to 39 percent; savings from curbing MA overpayments should be used to improve the Medicare ...
NPR

Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

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 ...