November 2017 – Page 11 – medicarereport.org

No Limit: Medicare Part D Enrollees Exposed to High Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs Without a Hard Cap on Spending

(By Juliette Cubanski, Tricia Neuman, Kendal Orgera, and Anthony Damico for The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, November 7, 2017)

(By Casey Ross for STAT) There’s at least one unassailable fact in the battle over the federal 340B drug discount

(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News) Hospice workers may witness terminal illness and death almost daily, but that doesn’t

(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lawmakers in the nation’s capital have yet to grapple with

(By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas for Kaiser Health News) The cups of urine travel by express mail to the

In an aim to control the skyrocketing costs of diabetes, CMS has announced expanding the availability of Medicare Diabetes Prevention

(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) Health IT giant Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems has been hit with a False

(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News) As soon as news surfaced last week about the

(By Chad Terhune and Anna Gorman for Kaiser Health News) Medicaid is rarely associated with getting rich. The patients are

(By Greta Jochem for NPR) A dermatologist in Washington, D.C., was surprised to discover that one of her patients was