COVID-19 could cause Medicare reserves to run out before 2026

Modern Healthcare: The team in charge of monitoring Medicare's solvency kept its projection that the Part A trust fund's reserves will run out in 2026, although the COVID-19 pandemic could speed that up.

That prediction is unchanged from the trustees' past two annual reports to Congress. Medicare covered about 62 million Americans last year. The 2020 assessment has an elephant in the room: It doesn't factor in the effects of COVID-19 on Medicare spending.

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