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Some Older Women Need Extra Breast Scans. Why Won’t Medicare Pay?

Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says

Hospice Is a Profitable Business, but Nonprofits Mostly Do a Better Job

Corporate Giants Buy Up Primary Care Practices at Rapid Pace

Medicare Tries to Combat Fraud. Now Insurers Are Fighting Back.

‘A New Frontier’ for Hearing Aids

In Older Americans, Rising Debt May Adversely Affect Health

Medicare Officially Limits Coverage of Aduhelm to Patients in Clinical Trials

Inside a Campaign to Get Medicare Coverage for a New Alzheimer’s Drug

In Difficult Cases, ‘Families Cannot Manage Death at Home’

Medicare Proposes to Cover Aduhelm Only for Patients in Clinical Trials

Decision Looms That Could Determine Fate of Alzheimer’s Drug

Why Aren’t More People Comparison Shopping for Health Plans?

Why Aren’t More People Comparison Shopping for Health Plans?

UnitedHealth Ships Flu Kits to Medicare Recipients

Some Insurers End Pandemic Waivers of Fees and Deductibles for Telehealth

A Covid-19 Lesson: Some Seriously Ill Patients Can Be Treated at Home

With Red Tape Lifted, Dr. Zoom Will See You Now

Federal Watchdog Questions Billions of Dollars Paid to Private Medicare Plans

For Older Patients, an ‘Afterworld’ of Hospital Care