The Latest Breaking News from Medicare

Health insurers that issue Medicare Advantage plans have repeatedly tried to sidestep regulations, audits find

Medicare data has confirmed what many already knew: GP bulk-billing rates have fallen in the past quarter, prompting more concern that the scheme is failing.

A KHN investigation found when some Medicare Advantage plans got a rare federal audit, they couldn't produce billing records for care they said they'd provided. Some blamed fire, flood — or doctors.

Former Coalition minister and Brittany Higgins’ former boss Senator Linda Reynolds is accused of ‘disturbing’ conduct during the Bruce Lehrmann trial, and one of Australia’s biggest bulk-billing medical centre chains, Tristar Medical Group, rorted Medicare for years.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is headed toward a standoff over the national debt next year, when Republicans newly in control of the U.S. House threaten to demand concessions for raising the government’s legal borrowing limit.

Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill…

If the Labor Government is really the champion of Medicare it would now focus on the delivery of health service and not just on funding.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s budget chief thinks Republicans have taken the wrong path on fiscal policy, and he is seeking to reroute the GOP with an alternative budget blueprint.

Research finds existing information on medical costs may mask variations in prices which specialists sometimes adjust based on patients’ perceived wealth