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Aging CMS Dental/Oral Health DME Health Care - General Health Care Finance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Medigap Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Dental, Healthcare Costs, Hearing Aids, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Advantage Vision care, Medicare Part D, Medigap, Out-of-pocket costs

Medicare Households Spend More on Health Care Than Other Households

(By Nancy Ochieng, Juliette Cubanski, and Anthony Damico for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Mar 14, 2024) Medicare provides health

Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 medicare, Medicare Advantage, Older Adults, SNP

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage

A recent report shows Medicare Advantage enrollment has increased by almost 2 million beneficiaries in 2023. Currently, 33 million individuals

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

Eileen Cook March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 CMS, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Older Adults, Prior Authorization

Part D plans ramp up prior authorization

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Medicare Part D plans have ramped up restrictions on prescription drugs since 2011,

Health Care Finance Health Care Redesign Legislative Update Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 Healthcare Costs, medicare, Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, Medicare Part D

Biden to propose expanding Medicare drug price negotiation in State of the Union

(By Rachel Cohrs for STAT) WASHINGTON — President Biden wants to more than double the size of Medicare’s new drug

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Health Care Finance Health Insurance LTC Medical Debt Part D/Prescription Drugs Uninsured/Underinsured

Eileen Cook March 5, 2024March 5, 2024 Health Insurance, Healthcare Costs, Long-term Care, Prescription drug costs, Uninsured

Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs

(By Lunna Lopes, Alex Montero, Marley Presiado, and Liz Hamel for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Mar 01, 2024) For

Health Care Finance Health Care Redesign Part D/Prescription Drugs Price Transparency

Eileen Cook February 23, 2024February 23, 2024 Drug price Transparency, PBM, Reform, State Attorneys General

State attorneys general call for federal PBM reforms

(By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review) State attorneys general are urging Congress to pass three bills that would reform

Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Medigap Part D/Prescription Drugs Prior Authorization

Eileen Cook February 23, 2024February 23, 2024 medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Advantage extra benefits, Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization

Is Medicare Advantage really better?

A recent report from The Commonwealth Fund found that despite the belief that Medicare Advantage members are more satisfied with

CMS Health Care Finance Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook February 22, 2024February 22, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Medicare Part D, Older Adults, Out-of-pocket prescription costs

CMS Issues Additional Guidance on Program to Allow People with Medicare to Pay Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Costs in Monthly Payments

(Source – www.cms.gov) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the second part of draft guidance for the

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

Eileen Cook February 16, 2024February 16, 2024 Healthcare Costs, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, medicare, Medicare Part D, Older Adults, Patients for Affordable Drugs, Pharma

Patients See First Savings From Biden’s Drug Price Push, as Pharma Lines Up Its Lawyers

(By Arthur Allen for KFF Health News) Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst,