Medicare/Social Security

Healthcare Estimates Can Send a Financial Plan Off the Tracks

To accurately and confidently plan for retirement, a client’s health needs, preferences, goals and location must be considered.

Medicare’s Push To Improve Chronic Care Attracts Businesses, but Not Many Doctors

Two-thirds of Medicare enrollees have two or more chronic conditions, qualifying them for a care-managing program, but only 4% participate.

Biden Is Right About $35 Insulin Cap but Exaggerates Prior Costs for Medicare Enrollees

Patients with private insurance or Medicare paid an average $63 a month for insulin, research shows, not $400 a month as the president claims.

How To Protect Clients from Social Security Fraud

Nearly everyone is a potential target. The Social Security Administration sends checks to more than 70 million beneficiaries.

Patients See First Savings From Biden’s Drug Price Push

Pharma is lining up its lawyers as savings — in the tens of thousands for some patients — kick in from reforms.

Medicare Recipients Could Save Big on Drugs This Year

Prescription drug costs are falling this year for more than 1 million seniors — in many cases, by thousands of dollars.

Older Americans Say They Feel Trapped in Medicare Advantage Plans

Switching back to traditional Medicare is expensive and supplemental insurers may deny coverage to those who do — or charge them more.

Limit on Drug Industry Middlemen Backfires, Pharmacists Say

A new Medicare rule could make it more difficult and more expensive for seniors to get prescriptions filled at drugstores.

Medicare Advantage Increasingly Popular With Seniors — But Not Hospitals and Doctors

Some providers refuse to accept it, coverage can be more limited and studies show it costs taxpayers more than traditional Medicare.

Uncle Sam Wants You to Help Stop Bogus Medicare Advantage Sales Tactics

CMM is encouraging seniors and other members of the public to report insurers' misleading or deceptive ads and other promotional materials.

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Stress Is Mounting for Working Women: Deloitte

Burnout is being fueled by inflexible return-to-office mandates coupled with lack of support in the office and at home.

Raymond James Welcomes Tampa, Fla., Financial Advisor With $125M

Sloane Fox and her practice, Sloane Financial Planning in Tampa, Fla., previously were affiliated with Merrill Lynch.

U.S. Annuity Sales Hit First Quarter Record of $113.5B, up 21%

Fixed-rate deferred annuities dominated in the first quarter with $48 billion in sales, 42% of the total annuity market.

Business Groups Sue FTC to Stop Noncompete Ban

The suit called the ban “a vast overhaul of the national economy, and applies to a host of contracts that could not harm competition in any way.”

FTC Issues Ban on Worker Noncompete Clauses

The Federal Trade Commission says employers can no longer, in most cases, stop their employees from going to work for rival companies.

Inspire Investing’s newest faith-based ETF surpasses $100M AUM in 11 days

The new Inspire 500 ETF offers access to U.S. large cap, “biblically screened companies” at the lowest price point available.

Biden Rule Grants Overtime Pay to 4 Million Workers

The new Biden rule goes even further to extend overtime pay than an Obama-era rule that was struck down in court.