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(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Express Scripts, The Cigna Group’s pharmaceutical benefit manager, will implement new policies designed

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Eileen Cook January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

What are the Medicare Part D changes in 2025?

On July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill that led to the creation of the Medicare

CMS Health Care Finance Health Care Redesign Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 CMS, Healthcare Costs, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D

This 2025 Medicare Change could reduce out-of-pocket expenses

Medicare changes every year, and 2025 was no exception. Although those changes usually involve higher premiums and deductibles for recipients,

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Eileen Cook January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, HHS, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, medicare, Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, Medicare Part D

FAQs about the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program

(By Juliette Cubanski for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Jan 23, 2025) The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act),

FDA Health Care - General HHS Medicaid Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, HHS, Medicaid, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D

How Does the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Impact Health and Health Care?

(By Rakesh Singh for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Jan 21, 2025) With President Trump now in office, his cabinet

CMS Health Care Finance Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 CMS, CMS Fines, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D

CMS issues flurry of Medicare fines to payers

(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS issued nearly $2.5 million in fines on Jan. 17 across multiple health

Health Care Finance Health Insurance Part D/Prescription Drugs PBM's

Eileen Cook January 21, 2025January 21, 2025 Drugmaker rebates, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Part D, PBM Industry

UnitedHealth’s plan to defend its PBM: 5 things to know

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Optum Rx will pass 100% of the rebates it negotiates for drugs onto its

CMS Health Care Finance Health Care Redesign Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook January 17, 2025January 17, 2025 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Medicare targets 15 more drugs for price negotiations

(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR) The Biden administration, in its last full weekday in office, is poised to announce the