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Eileen Cook January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 Health Insurers, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medical Necessity, Prosthetic limbs

Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity

(By Michelle Andrews for KFF Health News) When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)Health Care - General Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

Arlene Sharp December 30, 2024December 30, 2024

Extending Medicare coverage to obesity medications is imperative

By Anand Parekh, William Dietz, and Joseph Nadglowski for STAT on December 30, 2924 Although bipartisan legislation to provide Medicare coverage for obesity treatments

CMS Congressional Budget Office (CBO)Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 CMS, medicare, Medicare Part D, Older Adults, Weight Loss Drug Coverage

Weight loss drug coverage could cost Medicare $35B by 2034, CBO says: 4 notes

(By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review) Authorizing Medicare to cover weight loss drugs would cost the federal government an

Affordable Care Act (ACA)CMS Congressional Budget Office (CBO)Health Care Finance Health Care Redesign Health Insurance Medicaid Medicare - General

Eileen Cook January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 ACA, All Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development, CBO, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, CMS, Healthcare Costs, Medicaid, medicare

The CBO Report That Didn’t Roar

(By Drew Altman for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Jan 04, 2024) A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report in September