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CMS Releases Early Look at Medicare Beneficiary Survey Data
This week, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an “early look” at the 2017 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey...
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Coming Soon to a TV Near You: Drug Prices
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs, have put a...
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Issue Brief Shows People in Medicare Advantage Plans Spend Less on Medicare
A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation indicates that people with Medicare who choose Medicare Advantage (MA) plans...
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Medicare Rights Applauds the Introduction of the Bipartisan BENES Act
While most people newly eligible for Medicare are automatically enrolled in Part B—because they are collecting Social Security retirement benefits...
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Medicare is Strong and Built to Last
The Medicare Trustee’s report underscores what we already know: Medicare is strong and built to last. We urge lawmakers to...
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CMS Maintains Important Changes in Draft 2020 Medicare & You Handbook
Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that oversees the Medicare program, released a...
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New Models May Tweak how Medicare Works, but Beneficiaries Must Remain the Priority
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that oversees the Medicare program, released information about eight new...
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Middle-Income Older Adults Face Insufficient Resources for Housing and Health Care
This week, Health Affairs released a report finding that, increasingly, middle-income seniors will have not enough money to cover the...
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Medicare Payments for Insulin Have Increased Dramatically, Report Finds
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation report highlights the dramatic increase in Medicare spending on insulin products from 2007 to 2017....
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Recent Trends in Drug Pricing Show Stark Differences in Brand-Name and Generic Drug Affordability
A new report from the AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI) examines trends in prices for 390 generic prescription drugs widely...
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