Medicare Advantage is about to look very different in 2026, and not in ways most enrollees will welcome. Federal regulators ...

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 ...

In January 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented new restrictions that roll back parts of a ...

Some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans offer special supplemental benefits for people with chronic illnesses in addition to their standard benefits, which match those of Original Medicare (parts A and ...

New federal rules for 2026 are forcing Medicare Advantage plans to cut popular supplemental benefits like grocery cards. Find ...

Medicare's key advisory panel has released its latest report to Congress, and analysts note that spending on supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage (MA) has grown significantly over the past ...

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Beyers. We're recording on 06/12/2025. As a quick note, I know I've talked about the Insider Program a lot. We have a couple of ...

Medicare Advantage plans are an alternative to traditional Medicare that can provide coverage for more services. The ...

Use them or lose them: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just proposed vacating a rule that would have alerted beneficiaries about their unused benefits Three in 10 Medicare Advantage ...

A recent study conducted by Humana Healthcare Research, with strategic input from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals key insights into how Medicare Advantage beneficiaries perceive ...

Should you get the same Medicare coverage as your spouse? As in most things in life, the answer is it depends.