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Medicare could save nearly $500 million per year by reducing use of low-value preventive care services

04/30/2021 aging, Cancer, Healt, Medicare

FINDINGS A UCLA-led study shows that physicians frequently order preventive medical services for adult Medicare beneficiaries that are considered unnecessary

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Indiana’s Medicaid Expansion — Designed by Pence and Verma — Panned in Federal Report

04/03/2021 'Obamacare', ACA, financial hardship, financing, Florida, geriatrics, health care access, health care quality/access/evaluation, health care reform, health insurance, health plans, health services accessibility, healthcare reform under Trump, Indiana, Medicaid, Medicare, poverty, practice management, social determinants of health, social issues, Trump and healthcare, Trump and healthcare reform, urban, urban health

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

03/24/2021 cost control, drug costs, health care reform, Medicaid, Medicare, medicare drug benefit, outpatient drug benefit, pandemic:, political, politics, practice management, social determinants of health

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%

03/10/2021 5, 50, 8, claims, drugs, for, Medicare, more, neurology, only, over, paid, rose, while, years

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

03/02/2021 diabetes mellitus type 2, diabetes mellitus type ii, elderly, elderly/concerns of older adults, FDA, geriatric medicine, geriatrics (elder care), hypoglycemia, Inpatient, inpatient care, insulin therapy, Medicaid, Medicare, New York, older adults, senior citizens, Seniors, type 2 diabetes, u.s. food and drug administration, united states food and drug administration

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

03/02/2021 $1.7, A, billion, brand, cost, drugs, for, Generic, In, Medicare, name, over, prescription, program, requests, Single, the, 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

03/02/2021 health-care, Managed Care, Medicare, Public Health, Seniors

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

09/09/2020 billions, cholesterol?, dollars, drugs, finds, Generic, Medicare, of, save, study

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

05/27/2020 $35, A, benefit, copays, insulin, limit, Medicare, month, new, to, would

Reacting to skyrocketing prices for insulin, the Trump Administration announced on Tuesday a new benefit that would limit Medicare recipients’