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40% of Americans Believe Medicare Will Pay for LTC

In addition, nearly a quarter of Americans haven’t even considered how they will pay for LTC, meaning that more than 60% of Americans are financially unprepared for health challenges as they age.

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Rate Ranking Report

This report provides an overall premium rate competitiveness ranking by company across all states, plans, ages, genders, households, and zip codes, based on actual Medicare Supplement quotes completed on CSG Actuarial’s Market Advisor quoting tools. 

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Carrie Haubensak Carrie Haubensak

CMS Cracks Down on Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

As part of the ongoing efforts of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud to crush fraud in the healthcare system and protect taxpayer dollars, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking aggressive, sweeping actions within the Federal Marketplace.

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How to Prepare for New AEP Rules

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has changed some of the rules around how we work, while carriers are changing benefits, networks, eligibility requirements and supplemental programs.

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Updated Dental Market Projection Report from Telos

Covering individual Dental products, this report includes: aggregate premiums, policy counts, and loss ratios; premium volumes for top carriers; experience data for senior-focused Dental carriers; and projections for senior market products

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Decoding Medicare Advantage Coding Intensity

Coding intensity is the degree to which a person’s health care conditions are documented through diagnosis codes. Differences in coding patterns across groups of beneficiaries, such as MA enrollees and traditional Medicare beneficiaries, or those in MA plans sponsored by different insurers, are described as differences in coding intensity.

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Carrie Haubensak Carrie Haubensak

Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program in 2026

Estimated federal spending on the Medicare Advantage quality bonus program will total at least $13.4 billion in 2026, somewhat more than 2025 ($12.7 billion). Spending on the quality bonus program has increased sharply since the program started, more than quadrupling from $3.0 billion in 2015 to $13.4 billion in 2026.

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