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New Marketing Guidance Leaves Too Many Unanswered Questions
Last week, the Medicare Rights Center submitted comments on new federal marketing guidance that will apply to Medicare Advantage (MA)...
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Average Medicare Part D Premiums Inch Lower but Drug Affordability Still a Problem
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—the agency that oversees the Medicare program—announced that premiums for Medicare...
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Trump Administration Drug Pricing Proposals May Actually Raise Out-of-Pocket Costs for People with Medicare
Last week, the Medicare Rights Center submitted comments on a Request for Information (RFI) from the Department of Health and...
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Medicare: Strong and Built to Last
To launch our new series, we begin with “Medicare: Strong and Built to Last.” This fact sheet gives some basic...
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Federal Court Decision Blocks Medicaid Work Requirement in Kentucky
In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a Medicaid waiver in Kentucky that would allow the...
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New ACA Repeal Framework Resurrects Damaging Ideas from 2017
This week, the Health Policy Consensus Group—a consortium of think tanks and former and current lawmakers—put forward a new plan...
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Surprise Administrative Decision Puts Millions at Risk of Losing Health Coverage
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal court in Texas to end the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA)...
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Medicare Rights Opposes Potential New Medicare Model that Puts Beneficiaries at Risk
Last week, the Medicare Rights Center submitted comments to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in response to...
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Shifting Drugs from Part B to Part D May Create Winners and Losers
This week, Avalere Health, a Washington DC-based consulting firm that specializes in strategy, policy, and data analysis, released a study...
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New Drug Spending Tool May be Helpful for Researchers and Policymakers—Not Much Help for Consumers
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data and a new tool on prescription medication:...
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