Estimated to total at least $12.7 billion in 2025, it’s hard to overstate the impact of quality bonus payments for Medicare Advantage plans. Established contracts that achieve a four-star rating or ...

A key congressional advisory group on Thursday began reviewing ways to rejigger nursing home ratings to better account for the influence of staffing on overall quality. Under two proposed alternatives ...

Humana is again trying to win its lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over its star ratings designation. On Wednesday, Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, Humana filed a ...

• Higher-priced products tend to be rated more harshly, skewing comparisons • Cheap, highly rated items may reflect low expectations — not high quality If you’re shopping for gifts or hunting for ...

A previous Forefront article by these authors described how a two-tier framework—reformed Stars Ratings and a comprehensive Medicare Advantage (MA) Transparency Scorecard on non-clinical ...

ATLANTA — The star ratings you look at when you shop online may not lead you to the best quality products. Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray spoke with a researcher Thursday for Channel 2 ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ABOC (also known as Amalgamated Bank of Chicago) has been recognized as one of the best regional banks in the country, earning a five-star rating on Newsweek's ...