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Medicare Advantage Plans and prescription drug plans often make changes from year to year, which means it’s worthwhile evaluating your costs for next year.

Whether you already get your insurance through the marketplace or are eligible to, be aware that the time to pick a plan for 2023 is from Nov. 1 to Jan. 15.

Health insurers will flood the Medicare Advantage market again this fall with enticing offers of plans that have no monthly price tag. The number of so-called zero-premium plans has been growing for years, and they can appeal to retirees who live on fixed incomes. But experts say shoppers should exercise caution before jumping at the bargain. Independent broker Melissa Brenner...

A divided Senate has voted to start debating Democrats’ election-year economic bill.

Health insurers in individual marketplaces across 13 states and Washington D.C. will raise rates an average of 10% next year, according to a review of rate filings by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Health savings accounts are growing rapidly. They are available to consumers with a high-deductible health insurance plan and have a triple tax advantage.

Equifax, Experian and TransUnion recently announced that starting July 1, they will remove nearly 70% of medical debt from credit reports.

There can be big differences in the cost of assisted living facilities, depending on where the community is located.

There are many resources to which retirees worried about meeting their bills amid inflation can turn. Here are some of them.

The deadline for 2021 contributions to individual retirement accounts and health savings accounts is April 18, 2022 — tax day.

If you’ve discovered that your 2022 plan is not a good fit, be aware that you can make a change during a window that opened Jan. 1 and closes March 31.

At companies that offer a 2.5-month grace period to spend the previous year’s unused funds, the deadline is March 15.

When it comes to remarriage, advisors recommend engaged couples look at their financial pasts, presents and futures before tying the knot again.

If you ignore medical bills, it can evolve into unpaid debt that ends up with a collection agency and on your credit report for up to seven years.

A proposal that would have let Medicare negotiate the price of certain drugs was part of the Build Back Better Act, which died in the Senate late last year.

Over two-thirds of Americans believe they pay too much for the quality of health care they receive, according to a 2021 West Health-Gallup Poll. Almost half of Americans feel even worse about the U.S. health care system as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost one-third of Americans said they avoided seeking treatment within the past three months due to…

Fewer individuals are automatically being enrolled in Medicare at age 65, which can result in costly mistakes when signing up.

Americans’ health care expenses are double that of other wealthy nations, but we don’t use health care more, and we’re not healthier on average. So what exactly are we paying for? NBCLX storyteller Peter Hull breaks down why health care in the U.S. costs so much more than in other countries.

Health-care spending is rising in the U.S. more than anywhere else around the world.