More than 65 million Americans rely on the program for their health insurance, with a significant proportion of those being seniors facing retirement.
New letters urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand Medicare and Medicaid to include FDA-approved anti-obesity medications.
The Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has signaled that it will be revamping the process of negotiating prices for certain Medicare Part D drugs with input fro | The agency said it is "considering opportunities to bring greater transparency" and will consider stakeholder feedback on the program.
Medicare is big business, recently providing healthcare coverage to 68 million people. Before the 2024 election, fully 94% of surveyed seniors said it was very or extremely important to protect Medicare,
In testimony to the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Kennedy seemed to confuse the two government programs that cover more than 150 million Americans.
Medicare Advantage enrollees, particularly Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander decedents, use less end-of-life home health care than those enrolled in traditional Medicare.
President Donald Trump’s pause on federal grants and loans has agencies and individuals scrambling as the fallout continues.
In a confirmation hearing for his nomination to head the $1.7 trillion Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confused two of the massive healthcare programs he would be overseeing as secretary — Medicare and Medicaid — and insisted he was not anti-vaccine.
A show trial is an official proceeding that is conducted primarily for propaganda purposes rather than a tribunal seeking truth. That's what the Senate
Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary said that NIH, FDA and CDC would be integral in his objective to prevent chronic disease.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the nation’s top health official is uncertain after a key Republican joined Democrats to raise concerns over the nominee’s deep skepticism of routine