Indiana’s Medicaid Expansion — Designed by Pence and Verma — Panned in Federal Report
Indiana’s Medicaid expansion — with its “personal responsibility” provisions that require enrollees to pay monthly premiums and manage health savings
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Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices
Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major
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Medicare paid 50% more for neurology drugs over 5 years while claims rose only 8%
A new study of Medicare payments has found that over a five-year period, the payments for medications prescribed to people
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Less Risk of Hypoglycemia With Long-Acting Insulin in Elderly
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-acting insulin analogs may be a safer option than neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH, also known
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Requests for brand name over generic prescription drugs cost the Medicare program $1.7 billion in a single year
The Medicare Part D program would have saved $977 million in a single year if all branded prescription drugs requested
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Low satisfaction with care access makes Medicare Advantage enrollees to switch to traditional one
More than one out of every 10 seniors (10.5%) enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, also known as a Medicare
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Generic cholesterol drugs save medicare billions of dollars, study finds
The switch from brand name to generic cholesterol medications that occurred between 2014 and 2018 has saved Medicare billions of
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New Medicare benefit would limit insulin copays to $35 a month
Reacting to skyrocketing prices for insulin, the Trump Administration announced on Tuesday a new benefit that would limit Medicare recipients’
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