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Eileen Cook April 8, 2025April 8, 2025 CMS, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Advantage Payments

CMS boosts Medicare Advantage payments by $25B

(By: Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS will increase payments to Medicare Advantage plans by more than $25 billion

Health Care Finance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Rural Health

Eileen Cook April 8, 2025April 8, 2025 CMS, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Rural Health, Rural Hospitals

Rural Hospitals Question Whether They Can Afford Medicare Advantage Contracts

(By Arielle Zionts for KFF Health News) Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do

CMS Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 CMS, GLP-1 drugs, medicare, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Medicare will not cover GLP-1s for weight loss: 3 notes

(By: Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS said April 4 it will not move forward with a Biden-era proposal

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

Eileen Cook April 4, 2025April 4, 2025 CMS, Extra Benefits, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Who is enrolling in Medicare Advantage?

The creation of Medicare Advantage health plans was part of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. Medicare Advantage grew from almost

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

Eileen Cook April 2, 2025April 2, 2025 CMS, medicare, Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, Medicare Part D

Operationalizing the scope of the Medicare drug negotiations

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 allowed Medicare to directly negotiate the prices of certain high-expenditure, single-source drugs without generic

CMS HHS Illegal Activities Medicare - General Medicare Fraud; Illegal Activities

Eileen Cook April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 CMS, HHS, Improper Payments, medicare, Medicare Fraud

Medicare Program Integrity and Efforts to Root Out Improper Payments, Fraud, Waste and Abuse

(By Meredith Freed, Juliette Cubanski, and Tricia Neuman for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Mar 31, 2025) Medicare, the federal

CMS Medicare Advantage

Eileen Cook March 26, 2025March 26, 2025 CMS, Medicare Advantage, Older Adults

The fastest-growing states for Medicare Advantage | 2025

(By: Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Alaska saw the highest growth rate in Medicare Advantage of any state in

CMS Health Insurance Medicare - General

Arlene Sharp March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 CMS, medicare, Medicare Part D

IRA-Induced Involuntary Enrollment Churn In Medicare Part D: Likely Consequences

By David M. Anderson and Kelly E. Anderson for HealthAffairs on March 20, 2025 Fifty-three million Americans voluntarily choose to have

CMS Health Insurance Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

Arlene Sharp March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 CMS, medicare, Medicare Part D

Will Medicare Price Negotiations Really Cut Rheum Drug Costs?

— Initial analysis suggests Inflation Reduction Act provision will pay off By John Gever for MedPage Today on March 20,

CMS Health Insurance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage

Arlene Sharp March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 CMS, medicare, Medicare Advantage

Medicare Advantage Costs and Growth Largely Unexamined

By Lindsey Copeland for Medicare Rights Center on March 20, 2025 A new KFF report examines the increased role of Medicare Advantage