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Help Us Help Congress Protect and Strengthen Medicare
As we recently discussed, there are two big ways Congress can help protect and strengthen Medicare in the current lame...
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Advocacy Success: Improvements to Proposed Physician Payment Rules
Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Advocacy (CMS)—the federal agency that oversees the Medicare program—proposed changing the...
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Guidance for Advocates to Help People Move from Expansion Medicaid to Medicare
Last week, the Medicare Rights Center and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) released a new resource on the expansion...
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Trump Administration Drug-Pricing Proposal Includes Big Changes to Medicare Part B
Last week, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), the department of the federal government that oversees the Medicare...
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Pre-Existing Conditions: Here’s What You Need to Know
Pre-existing conditions have been prominent in the news lately and much of the discussion includes some misunderstandings about what it...
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In this Halloween Season, Zombie Threats to Health Care Put Us at Risk
Certain threats to health care seem to arise from the dead regularly, and this Halloween season features an assortment of...
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New Medicare Advantage and Part D Plan Landscape Reveals Challenges Ahead
In late September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—the federal agency that oversees the Medicare program—released an overview...
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Pharmacists May Soon Be Allowed to Proactively Provide People with Medicare Information about Cheaper Medications
This week, Congress passed two bipartisan bills aimed at removing barriers that may prevent people from paying the lowest possible...
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Tell CMS Not to Create More Burdens for People with Medicare through this “Fix”
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that oversees the Medicare program, is seeking comments on...
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Closing the Donut Hole: What it Means and Why it Matters
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released a data note on the Medicare Part D coverage gap, commonly referred...
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