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Report Examines How Medigap Rules and Enrollment Vary Widely by State
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released an issue brief analyzing the availability of, and enrollment in Medigaps across...
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Kaiser Family Foundation Places Medicare Spending Trends in Historical Context
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a new issue brief on Medicare spending. The brief analyzes the most recent...
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Tax Changes, Demographics, and Costs Trigger Changes in Medicare’s Financial Future
In its annual report to Congress, the Board of Trustees for Medicare said the program’s hospital insurance trust fund (Part...
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Kaiser Family Foundation Makes Predictions for Future of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a new report looking at the history of the concept of Medicare drug price negotiation,...
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Medicare Rights Center Helps Inform Changes to D-SNPs
The recently-passed Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA of 2018) makes a number of changes to Medicare, including permanently authorizing...
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CMS Finalizes Medicare Advantage and Part D Changes for 2019
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final Medicare Advantage and Part D 2019 Rate...
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Medicaid Work Requirements Would Impact Older Adults
The Commonwealth Fund recently released a report analyzing different proposals by states to impose a work requirement for Medicaid benefits...
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CMS Proposes Additional Medicare Advantage Flexibilities in 2019 Call Letter
This week, the Medicare Rights Center submitted comments in response to the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year...
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New and Proposed Changes to Medicare Part D
Late last week, Congress passed and the President signed a sweeping spending bill that will fund the government through March...
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Medicare Advantage Provider Directory Errors Pervasive
Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories. These essential documents, which beneficiaries...
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