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Health Care Costs Disproportionately Burden People with Medicare
Many of Medicare’s 65 million enrollees can struggle to pay for coverage and care. The program’s benefit design and lack...
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Medicare Savings Program Expansion in New York: New Report Highlights Lessons Learned and Other Needed Improvements
This week, the Medicare Rights Center released a report titled Increasing Access to Medicare Savings Programs: Lessons Learned and Policy...
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Proposed Rules Would Extend and Ease Access to Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care
In two newly proposed rules, the Biden-Harris administration has identified ways to extend Medicare coverage for medically necessary dental care...
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Medicare Advantage 101: A Policy Series From the Medicare Rights Center
This week, the Medicare Rights Center released Medicare Advantage 101, a new set of fact sheets and videos that delve into the...
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Administration Looks to Restrict Junk Plans
Last week, the Biden-Harris administration released a proposed rule that would limit the sale of short-term, limited-duration insurance (STLDI) or...
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HHS Projects Significant Medicare Beneficiary Savings Under the IRA
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) made key changes to improve prescription drug affordability for people with Medicare. Important reforms that...
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The Inflation Reduction Act’s Part B Insulin Price Takes Effect July 1
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) capped out-of-pocket costs for insulin medications for people with Medicare. Coinsurances and copays for insulin...
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CMS Continues Push for Nursing Home Ownership Transparency
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two new data tools as part of the Biden-Harris...
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Medicare Provider Overpayments Problematic and Point to Larger Issue
Late last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report finding...
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Coverage Losses Mount as Medicaid Unwinding Continues
During most of the COVID-19 pandemic, states were allowed to keep people continuously enrolled in Medicaid in exchange for enhanced...
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