A congressional committee’s investigators released a report on Tuesday that found the average ​American senior’s Medicare premiums last year were about 10% higher due to ‌alleged overpayments to private Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Part B premiums that most seniors pay were partly pushed up by controversial health-insurer practices such as adding diagnoses to trigger higher ...

UnitedHealthcare is expanding its doula benefit to employer plans nationwide, the insurance giant announced Monday. The company said in the announcement that it intends to continue expanding the reach of its Doula Support program to additional employer groups throughout this year and expects that 7.2 million members would be eligible by Jan. 1, 2027. Through the program, ...

Getting a certain amount of sleep could help ward off diabetes, a new study suggests. A team of Chinese researchers studied how sleep duration on weekdays is associated with insulin resistance, a key risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The long-term observational study, held from 2009 to 2023, included about 25,000 participants. The “sweet spot” for low insulin ...

For older adults, a daily multivitamin may slightly slow the aging process, new research suggests. In a randomized study of 958 older adults, those who took a multivitamin daily for two years experienced slowed so-called biological aging by about four months. That is, during the 24 months, they aged only 20 months at a cellular level. Whereas ...

The idea of a government-run universal health care program that would replace private insurance as the sole payer of health care costs faces many headwinds. It had fallen onto the backburner after lawmakers failed to get it done, with some balking at the $392 billion estimated annual cost.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a national public health leader by staking out science-backed policies in contrast with the Trump administration. After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez for refusing what her lawyers called “the dangerous politicization of science,” Newsom hired her to ...