Long-term care costs like nursing home care can quickly drain retirement savings. Medicare provides little help paying these bills, but Medicaid can cover nursing home costs for those who meet strict ...

While one-third of older adults may never need long-term care services, many people do need the extra support, including care in a nursing home. According to a report from the Urban Institute, the ...

TEAM may encourage hospitals to improve the quality of the care their patients receive after being discharged. But it also ...

Medicare doesn’t cover nonmedical long-term care. This is why purchasing a policy to help with a long-term need becomes ...

The U.S. has some of the highest elder care costs in the world and Medicare won’t cover them all. Discover ways to plan for ...

Medicare may end a person’s skilled nursing facility (SNF) coverage if the care is no longer medically necessary or if they use all their covered days in a benefit period. An SNF is a care facility ...

Nursing homes are facing major new Medicare cost reporting changes that will require more intense data-collection efforts and enable additional regulatory oversight ...

They compensate providers such as doctors and hospitals on quality rather than volume of care, and they engage and assist ...