If your appeal isn't successful, your mother will be considered a private pay patient. While she will not have her benefits ...

Over the past few decades, the expenses associated with extended medical care, assisted living and nursing home facilities have surged. According to data from Genworth, the average cost of a private ...

Here are four effective ways in which seniors can prepare for surprise medical expenses, according to the experts we spoke ...

As we age, many of us will need some form of long-term care, whether at home or in a facility. With nursing home costs ...

Medicare seems to offer more consistent care across states than other insurance programs; however, where beneficiaries live ...

Understanding the needs of high-need, high-cost community-based beneficiaries, including homebound status, will help Medicare ...

Many people will need to stay in a nursing home at some point in their lives. How much care they'll need and how long they need to stay, however, can be hard to predict. And unfortunately, Medicare ...

This is evident in Idaho, where 37% of patients referred to home health care after hospitalization did not receive it last ...

Despite increasing Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment growth, the plans offering in-home support services decreased between ...

Medicaid payment rates given to the average nursing home covered about 82 cents per dollar of care costs for Medicaid residents, according to a recent federal government report. The “Assessing ...

A new government survey of 13,285 US nursing homes has found that the average provider received 82 cents on the dollar from Medicaid for the costs accrued while caring for beneficiaries. “Assessing ...