Rachel Nall, MSN, CRNA Updated May 29, 2020 at 11:00 AM ...

By contrast, the top administrators in Medicare get a bit over $200,000 a year. If someone is looking for waste, the excessive pay of insurance company executives is a good place to start.

On average, Medicare Advantage has 4.7 providers per 1,000 enrollees, whereas traditional Medicare has 2.9 providers and Medicaid has 3.1 providers for the same number of enrollees.

Project 2025 recommends making Medicare Advantage — the private insurance offering in Medicare — the default option for enrollment. Currently, there is no default option, though what’s ...

Medicare spent $1 trillion last year, and it is growing rapidly. It will spend nearly $2 trillion ten years from now. It is a major driver of the rising federal debt that, as the Congressional ...

Most Medicare enrollees have two or more chronic conditions, making them eligible for a program that rewards physicians for doing more to manage their care. But not many doctors have joined.

It also includes the annual national health expenditures article by Anne Martin and colleagues at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), who report $4.9 trillion of spending in 2023 ...