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CMS Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 19, 2024September 19, 2024 CMS, medicare, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Medicare has two trust funds

How are Medicare claims paid? Medicare has two trust funds – Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund and Supplementary Medical Insurance

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

Eileen Cook September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 Cigna, HCSC, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D

HCSC approved to purchase Cigna’s Medicare business in Florida

(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Florida’s insurance commissioner has given the green light for Health Care Service Corp.

CMS Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 CMS, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Open enrollment, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Medicare Open Enrollment is just around the corner

The annual Medicare Open Enrollment is right around the corner. The open enrollment period runs from October 15th to December

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

Eileen Cook September 13, 2024September 13, 2024 CMS, medicare, Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Allowing Medicare to Negotiate Drug Prices Remains Broadly Popular Among Voters, Though Most Are Unaware of the Law and Its Projected Savings

(By Craig Paloskey for The Kaiser Family Foundation published September 13, 2024) Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices on behalf

FDA Health Care Finance Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Biosimilars drugs, FDA, Healthcare Finance, Humira, Medicare Part D

Optum joins CVS, Cigna in dropping Humira

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Optum Rx will join the other major pharmacy benefit managers and exclude Humira

Affordable Care Act (ACA)CMS Health Care Finance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus payments, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Payments Will Total at Least $11.8 Billion in 2024

(By Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Meredith Freed, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Sep 11, 2024)

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

Eileen Cook September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 FDA, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Part D, TV Drug Ads

With TV Drug Ads, What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get

(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for KFF Health News) Triumphant music plays as cancer patients go camping, do some gardening, and watch

CMS Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 6, 2024September 6, 2024 Customer Satisfication, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D

Medicare Advantage members expect more — how top-rated payers respond

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are getting savvier and expecting more from their plans, executives

Emerging Health Issues FDA Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 Drug Shortages, FDA, Medicare Part D

6 drugs now in shortage

(By Paige Twenter for Becker’s Hospital Review) The sole suppliers for a few medications, including a Parkinson’s disease therapy, are

CMS Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Medigap Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Medigap, Older Adults, Open Enrollment

Medicare Advantage open enrollment is coming

Did you know Medicare has several different enrollment periods with separate rules for each? There is an Initial enrollment period,