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Policy changes affecting Medicare Advantage, including benchmark rate cuts and Part D redesigns
Most moved only modestly above 2025 levels: federal SSI-related thresholds rose (driving nursing-home caps to about $2,982/month), while many MAGI-based expansion and family thresholds await official ...
The CARES Act delivered substantial, mostly grant-based financial support to hospitals and health-care providers—most prominently the Provider Relief Fund and other emergency distributions—rather than...
The supplied reporting documents state-by-state changes in eligibility and recent adjustments to long‑term care caps tied to federal benefit updates, but it does not provide a clear list of which stat...
The newest final regulations implementing the changes to required minimum distributions (RMDs) generally take effect for distribution calendar years beginning in 2025, and the IRS provided targeted tr...
Benchmark plan selection — defined by the second-lowest-cost silver (SLS) plan in each rating area — directly sets the dollar amount of the premium tax credit (PTC) for an enrollee because the PTC equ...
Three administrative actions scheduled for 2026 stand out as most likely to boost applications for Medicare Savings Programs (): the streamlining/auto‑enrollment and ‑leads rules that lower paperwork ...
Federal and state proposals clearly aimed at changing Medicare itself abound for 2026, but direct, active proposals to change eligibility or enrollment rules for the Medicare Savings Programs () are l...