By Dr. David Tayloe Jr.  NC Newsline In 1965, after creating Medicare to provide health services for people over the age of ...

Options for Medicare and Medicaid Dual Coverage People who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits are referred to as dual eligible. A person may have partial or full dual eligibility.

SK&A released its report titled, “Physician Office Acceptance Government Insurance Programs,” which showed 83.6 percent of medical providers accept Medicare and 67 percent accept Medicaid, though a ...

For many Americans, Medicaid and Medicare are the last line of defense against the rising cost of healthcare in the United States. According to the American Medical Association (AMA), health-related ...

“People tend to use the terms interchangeably, but they are not at all the same,” says Josh Hodges, the chief customer officer at the National Council on Aging. Unlike Medicare, which is funded by the ...