During the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period, advertisers bombard Medicare beneficiaries, often with high-pressure ads. Now, Medicare is cracking down on misleading ads.
In total, there are 3,959 Medicare Advantage plans being offered for individual enrollment in 2024, a 1% decrease from 2023, according to a new report from KFF.
Amid the unwinding of the continuous enrollment provision, more than 10 million people have lost Medicaid coverage, according to data from KFF. Of those disenrolled from Medicaid coverage, 71% were removed from coverage for procedural reasons.
The annual cost of employer-sponsored family health insurance plans rose 7% in 2023, pushing the average premium to $23,968 per year, according to the latest KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey. Workers pay $6,575 of the total cost on average, a year-over-year increase of about $500, or 8%, with employers picking up the rest of the bill. Although price hikes have been relatively small over the last two years, over the past five years, insurance premiums have increased by 22%, roughly in line wit