Medicare

Medicare’s open enrollment period began Tuesday. Many existing plans have been changed or removed, and with an increased push for Medicare Advantage plans, there is growing concern that more seniors will enter 2025 with inadequate benefits.

The number of Coloradans without health insurance hit an all-time low this year. The state uninsured rate dropped in 2023 to 4.6 percent. Reporter Michael Booth with The Colorado Sun joined KUNC host Nikole Robinson Carroll to discuss how some changes to federal policies are making the future of that figure unclear.

With millions of people out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic, fewer payroll taxes are coming in to help keep Medicare's trust fund intact.

Nearly 40 hospitals in the Mountain West are being penalized for having high rates of infections, patient injuries or other complications from hospital...

Colorado hospitals will be required to report annual spending in an effort to curb health care prices under a bill Gov. Jared Polis is signing into law…

Unlike many private health plans, Medicare has no cap on out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs in Part D. As the cost of specialty drugs rises, some Medicare patients owe thousands of dollars.

The American Hospital Association has released a new report on the state of rural hospitals across the country. There’s good and bad news about how the…

The Trump administration says its plan to overhaul the way Medicare pays doctors will save physicians time and paperwork. But critics worry the changes will hurt patients' care and doctors' income.

Fire prevention and repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act were on the table this week in the U.S. House, while Colorado’s senators backed the…

In 2016, Colorado voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on a proposal for universal single payer health care. If the ballot measure, called…