As October arrives, millions of Americans face one of the most important financial and healthcare decisions of the year: the Medicare Open Enrollment Period (OEP), running from October 15 to December ...

Bruine de Bruin is director of the Behavioral Sciences and Policy Initiative at the USC Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service. Blum is a nonresident senior scholar at the USC ...

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services is making significant changes for 2026 to its Medicare Plan Finder tool, which enrollees use to select plans. The federal agency will require each Medicare ...

WASHINGTON — Medicare’s revamped prescription plan finder can steer unwitting seniors to coverage that costs much more than they need to pay, according to people who help with sign-ups as well as ...

Medicare beneficiaries have a wide selection of Medicare Advantage plans to choose from, but the quality and coverage can vary significantly. For 2026, 97% of beneficiaries have 10 or more Medicare ...

Millions of Americans lose their Medicare Advantage plans each year, or their plan’s network changes and their doctors and ...