Dear Toni: I was hospitalized in November 2025 for a triple bypass surgery, and I plan to retire when I turn 65 in April. Last week, I talked with the office manager at my cardiologist’s office about ...

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Elder Benefit Specialist Alice Ackerman with the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Monroe County explained Medicare ...

“A compassionate, nonjudgmental approach to screening for symptoms of depression is recommended as part of the evaluation of ...

UNH has struggled in recent years on account of rising medical costs and lower-than-expected Medicare Advantage ...

Turning 65 should feel liberating, a milestone marking decades of hard work finally rewarded with Medicare coverage. Yet for ...

Toni: I have been reading your Medicare column, and now I need your Medicare help. I am retiring when I turn 65 in April. I was hospitalized in November of 2025 with a triple bypass surgery.

Hospice fraud explodes in Los Angeles with providers allegedly scamming $3.5 billion from Medicare through ghost patients and ...

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He explained that there is no provision in GLOBE or GUARD that changes what plans, hospitals or pharmacists pay for prescription drugs, and there is no mechanism for shifting the any savings to ...

From airports and paycheques to loans and national parks, even a partial shutdown can disrupt daily life far beyond ...

Roughly 75 million Americans receive Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Every January, their benefits are adjusted using an inflation formula based on the CPI-W index. For 2026, ...