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Congress: Close Medicare’s dangerous gaps in coverage for addiction treatment

(By Brian Hurley and Paul N. Samuels for ST A T) While many people immediately picture young adults when thinking

Eileen Cook May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 CMS, medicare, Mental Health, Older Adults, Opioid Use Disorder, Substance Abuse

CMS Emerging Health Issues Health Care - General Health Insurance Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

Poll: 1 in 8 Adults Say They’ve Taken a GLP-1 Drug, Including 4 in 10 of Those with Diabetes and 1 in 4 of Those with Heart Disease

(By Tammie Smith at The Kaiser Family Foundation published May 10, 2024) About one in eight adults (12%) say they

Eileen Cook May 10, 2024May 10, 2024 CMS, Diabetes, Emerging Healthcare, GLP-1s drugs, Healthcare Costs, heart disease, medicare, Medicare Part D, Mounjaro, Obesity, Ozempic, Wegovy

CMS Health Care Finance Medicare Advantage

Limiting Medicare Advantage patient surveys could save billions: Study

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Limiting the use of health risk assessments in Medicare Advantage could save

Eileen Cook May 9, 2024May 9, 2024 CMS, Health Risk Assessments, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Advantage, Older Adults

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

Medicare’s financial picture brightens slightly

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund is expected to run out in 2036,

Eileen Cook May 7, 2024May 7, 2024 CMS, Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D

CMS Health Insurance Medicare Advantage

Medicare Advantage extras on the chopping block in 2025

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Medicare Advantage insurers are planning to pare down their plan offerings in

Eileen Cook May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 CMS, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Advantage extra benefits, Older Adults

CMS Health Care Redesign Health Insurance Medicaid Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization

Final Prior Authorization Rules Look to Streamline the Process, but Issues Remain

(By Kaye Pestaina, Justin Lo, Rayna Wallace, and Michelle Long for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: May 02, 2024) As

Eileen Cook May 3, 2024May 3, 2024 application programming interfaces (APIs)., CMS, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization, Older Adults, Prior Authorization

Caregiver CMS Health Care Finance Hospice/Home Health Services Medicaid

New Medicaid rule expected to lower wait times for home-based care, raise caregiver wages

(By Timmy Broderick for ST A T) Caregivers for older adults and people with disabilities could see a bump in

Eileen Cook May 3, 2024May 3, 2024 Caregiver, CMS, Disabled, Healthcare Finance, Home-based care, Medicaid, Medicaid HCBS program, Older Adults

CMS Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs

An Estimated 1 in 4 Medicare Beneficiaries With Obesity or Overweight Could Be Eligible for Medicare Coverage of Wegovy, an Anti-Obesity Drug, to Reduce Heart Risk

(By Chris Lee for The Kaiser Family Foundation published April 24, 2024) In a new analysis, KFF finds that 3.6

Eileen Cook April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 CMS, FDA, medicare, Medicare Part D, Older Adults, Reduce Heart Risk, Semaglutide, Wegovy

CMS Health Care - General Health Insurance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage

Untangling The Multiple Parts Of Medicare

Published by 1A on April 24, 2024 for NPR When we began our retirement series a couple months ago, there

Arlene Sharp April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 CMS, medicare, Medicare Advantage

CMS Health Care - General Health Insurance Medicare - General

Medicare Stumbles Managing a Costly Problem — Chronic Illness

By Phil Galewitz on April 24, 2024 for KFF Health News Nearly a decade ago, Medicare launched a program to

Arlene Sharp April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 chronic illness, CMS, Healthcare Costs, medicare