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1 day ago · Many health plans are facing headwinds – and are reducing earnings-per-share guidance for 2024 – due to higher-than-expected utilization and costs for Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Unfortunately for payers, this reality will continue for the foreseeable future thanks to these six converging factors:
4 days ago · Workers must pay 12.4%, including a 6.2% employer contribution, on their wages below the Social Security Wage Base ($102,000 in 2008), but no tax on income in excess of this amount. Therefore, high earners pay a lower percentage of their total income, resulting in a regressive tax. The benefit paid to each worker is also calculated using the ...
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6 days ago · Medicare contracts with regional insurance companies to process over one billion fee-for-service claims per year. In 2008, Medicare accounted for 13% ($386 billion) of the federal budget. In 2016 it is projected to account for close to 15% ($683 billion) of the total expenditures.
5 days ago · The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according the annual Social Security and...
4 days ago · Medicare is funded mainly through payroll taxes paid by most employees and employers, along with self-employed people, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
4 days ago · Medicare premiums for 2024 will increase. The cost of Medicare Part A deductible, Part B and Part D are all rising. Here's what you need to know.
4 days ago · A March 2023 poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits,...
