Dr. Oz lacks policy experience but has TV show chops. Tom Scully, who led Medicare & Medicaid for President George W. Bush, argues that Oz is well-suited to be a spokesman for Trump's health care agenda.

Dr. Mehmet Oz is set to appear before the Senate Finance committee Friday for his confirmation hearing to be the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

On its last weekday in power, the Biden Administration has chosen the next batch of drugs up for price negotiation in Medicare. 

One of the permanent changes for Medicare patients is the ability to receive telehealth services for behavioral/mental health care in their home.

The former president's pending return to the White House could alter the very nature of Medicare, the nearly 60-year-old federal health care program.

Harris used ABC’s The View — a popular daytime television talk show — to unveil a new pledge squarely aimed at women who take care of aging parents as well as their own kids.

Medicare's new authority to negotiate lower prescription drug prices represents a signature accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration. Here's what to know as the first set of talks wraps up.

The government is launching an experimental program to ease the burden on caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. The idea is to keep patients healthier without exhausting their families.

The Supreme Court's decision regarding Idaho's abortion ban may hinge on whether federal spending power can protect doctors against a state's criminal code. Justices questioning this power could look to the launch of Medicare. Two years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, health care remained segregated by race across the South, and Black patients were denied treatment at many hospitals.

Social Security's finances have improved slightly in the last year. But the popular retirement program still faces big challenges including the threat of automatic benefit cuts in less than a decade.

Most Medicare enrollees have two or more chronic conditions, making them eligible for a program that rewards physicians for doing more to manage their care. But not many doctors have joined.

A report from the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general finds a dire shortage of mental health care providers in Medicaid and Medicare, which together serve some 40% of Americans.

A bipartisan Senate bill, dropping Thursday, promises better health care for some of the poorest, sickest Americans, who are known as "duals" because they qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid.

A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride.

Medicare pays hospitals about double what it pays other providers for the same services. The hospital lobby is fighting hard to make sure a switch to "site-neutral payments" doesn't become law.