Medicare

• KFF Health News: Can I Opt Out of Having My Doctor Take Notes With AI?

  April 07, 2026: Family physician Eric Boose has been using an artificial intelligence tool to get back to what he calls “old-fashioned medicine” — talking with patients face-to-face, without having to type into a computer at the same time. “I can really j...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Rising Health Costs Push Some Middle-Aged Adults To Skip the Doc Until Medicare

  March 23, 2026: John Galvin knows he needs a colonoscopy. But he’s waiting to schedule the procedure until December, when he turns 65 and qualifies for Medicare. He was already thinking about delaying it — then his monthly Obamacare insurance premium payment ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies

  March 13, 2026: Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans. Yet a...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Blurry Line Between Medical and Vision Insurance Leaves Patient With Unexpected Bill

  January 30, 2026: Barbara Tuszynski was concerned about her vision but confident in her insurance coverage when she went to an eye clinic last May. The retiree, 70, was diagnosed with glaucoma in her right eye in 2019. She had a laser procedure to treat it in 2022,...Read more >

• KFF Health News: These 3 Policy Moves Are Likely To Change Health Care for Older People

  January 23, 2026: Month after month, Patricia Hunter and other members of the Nursing Home Reform Coalition logged onto video calls with congressional representatives, seeking support for a proposed federal rule setting minimum staff levels for nursing homes. Final...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Solving the Home Care Quandary

  January 08, 2026: You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking? Perhaps yo...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Complaints About Gaps in Medicare Advantage Networks Are Common. Federal Enforcement Is Rare.

  November 20, 2025: Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make even bad news more tolerable. Losing that support — especially during a health cr...Read more >

• KFF Health News: AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments

  September 25, 2025: [caption id="attachment_15788" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Mehmet Oz, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said during a June press conference that “violence in the streets” had prompted the Trump administration to take...Read more >

• Medicare Telehealth Services Will Expire on September 30

  September 17, 2025: Congress only has until the end of September to renew expanded Medicare telehealth services. Before the COVID pandemic, only certain patients with specific diagnoses and conditions were eligible to receive telehealth medical care. But lawmakers made ...Read more >

• Americans Struggle to Access COVID Vaccines

  September 12, 2025: HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. has said that Americans who want COVID shots will be able to get them. However, some older Americans have reported going to local pharmacies to receive a COVID vaccine only to discover that Medicare currently won’...Read more >