Medicare for You: What You Need to Know Part 2
By Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Did you know you can save money on Medicare costs
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Part D/Prescription Drugs
HHS cuts 7 drugs from Medicare Part B rebates list
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) HHS has removed seven drugs from its initial list of 27 drugs subject
Read More2024 Medicare Advantage and Part D Final Rule (CMS-4201-F)
(Source – www.cms.gov) On April 5, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that
Read MorePrescription refill is now available via VA Health and Benefits mobile app
(Source – news.va.gov) Veterans can now refill their prescriptions (Rx) using the VA Health and Benefits mobile app. Existing users
Read More‘Modern gangsters’: Ohio sues 3 PBMs for alleged price fixing
(By Andrew Cass for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Ohio attorney general’s office has filed a lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit
Read MoreAHIP backs HHS in challenge to agency’s copay coupon policies
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) AHIP is backing an HHS policy that allows insurers not to count copay
Read MoreCalifornia enters a contract to make its own affordable insulin
(By Emma Bowman for NPR) California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced a new contract with nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx, a
Read MoreHHS Releases Initial Guidance for Historic Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program for Price Applicability Year 2026
(Source – www.cms.gov) For the first time in history, Medicare will have the ability to negotiate lower prescription drug prices
Read MoreHere are the Medicare basics
More than 10,000 people turn 65 every day in the United States. Knowing your options for health care are more
Read MoreNew CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?
By Sam Whitehead and Andy Miller for Kaiser Health News on March 15, 2023 Jessica Layman estimates she has called
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