A deep dive into the work of one Medicaid contractor is offering stark new insights into how often Medicare Advantage plans deny nursing home coverage, how they time their decisions and why it matters ...

Health insurance is too important to be misguided on Medicare's ins and outs.

Medicare should eliminate a coverage rule requiring at least a three-day hospital inpatient stay for beneficiaries to qualify for follow-up nursing home coverage, former CMS Administrator Donald ...

Nursing home leaders are rethinking not only how they operate but how they define opportunity heading into 2026. This is apparent from executives at ...

Medicare's three-day hospital admission rule has frustrated seniors who don't qualify for nursing home coverage because they were in the hospital under observation care rather than being admitted. The ...

To qualify for home healthcare under Medicare, you’ll need to show that you are “homebound” due to illness and injury via a doctor’s examination and recommendation. However, you’ll first need to be ...

While original Medicare (Parts A and B) covers a wide array of health care services after you turn 65, it doesn’t cover ...