"This edition of the Healthcare Enforcement column discusses two judicial decisions from recent months relating to the ...

First Physicians Group primary care doctors will be out-of-network for Florida Blue Medicare Advantage plans starting July 1, 2025. Approximately 3,800 patients are affected by this change, but ...

Medicare Advantage — like all private health insurance — is structurally unsound. Nothing short of a complete overhaul can cure the U.S. health care system of this disease. Emma Freer ...

Although the state has the highest number of physicians per capita, it also has the fifth lowest share of all physicians who work in primary care. Also, as older doctors age out, fewer new ...

MIXED SIGNALS — Uncertainty lingers for the Medicare Advantage industry as two of the nation’s top insurers on Thursday painted different pictures of the program’s financial stability ...

Shares of major health insurers jumped early Tuesday after the federal government announced a better-than-expected, 2026 payment increase for Medicare Advantage plans.

Today’s Medicare isn’t your grandparents’ program. New enrollees have an immediate big decision to make: Should they enroll in original Medicare (also referred to as traditional Medicare) or sign up ...

Takeaway Points. Quality and efficiency of care for traditional Medicare (TM) beneficiaries may differ when provided by physicians with high Medicare Advantage (MA) risk payment exposure.

On average, 51.1 percent of White physicians in a given beneficiary’s county were included in their MA network, compared with 43.2 percent of Black physicians and 44.0 percent of Hispanic ...

Nearly 300 primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board indicating their intent to unionize.

Part B covers doctors’ services, outpatient care, preventive medicine and medical supplies. It comes with a monthly premium — in 2024 the standard premium is $174.70.

Nationwide, 535,256 professionally active primary care physicians were practicing in the U.S., as of September. Here’s a breakdown by field: Primary care subspecialty: Internal.