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Medicare to Pay for Home Covid Tests
February 04, 2022: On Thursday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced plans to make over-the-counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests available to people with Medicare at no cost by “early spring.” CMS's initial OTC testing poli Read More >
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KHN: Why Medicare Doesn’t Pay for Rapid At-Home Covid Tests
January 25, 2022: What group is especially vulnerable to the ravages of covid-19 even if fully vaccinated and boosted? Seniors. And who will have an especially tough time getting free at-home covid tests under the Biden administration’s plan? Read More >
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Medicare Beneficiaries’ Telehealth Visits Increased 63-Fold in 2020
December 13, 2021: When the COVID-19 pandemic prevented many Medicare recipients from going to their in-person routine medical appointments, the Medicare program responded in 2020 by offering temporary waivers to increase telehealth visits. Those wa Read More >
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Medicare Premiums to Take a Big Bite out of Social Security’s 5.9% COLA in 2022
November 22, 2021: The standard monthly Medicare Part B premium in 2022 will rise to $170.10 from $148.50 in 2021 – a 14.55% jump and more than double what had been expected. A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) official told CNN Read More >
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KHN: Medicare Enrollment Blitz Doesn’t Include Options to Move Into Medigap
November 10, 2021: Medicare’s annual open-enrollment season is here and millions of beneficiaries — prompted by a massive advertising campaign and aided by a detailed federal website — will choose a private Medicare Advantage plan. But Read More >
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Democrats Plan to Expand Medicare Hearing Benefits. What Can Consumers Expect?
November 05, 2021: President Joe Biden’s mammoth domestic spending bill would add hearing benefits to the traditional Medicare program — one of three major new benefits Democrats had sought. The Biden administration appears to have fallen sho Read More >
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Alliance Members Speak Out for Drug Price Negotiation and Expanded Medicare Benefits
October 12, 2021: On Wednesday, October 6, a group of health care advocates including the Florida Alliance (FLARA), medical professionals, and faith leaders held a virtual event urging Rep. Stephanie Murphy (FL), another House Democrat who has oppo Read More >
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Drug Corporations Kick Lobbying into High Gear to Stop Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
October 12, 2021: Millions of dollars in advertising, funded by pharmaceutical corporations and business organizations, are being spent to block President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, and the provision allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug Read More >
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KHN: The Public Backs Medicare Rx Price Negotiation Even After Hearing Both Sides’ Views
October 12, 2021: As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of their political party or age — support letting the federal government negotiate drug prices for Read More >
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CEOs Against Medicare Price Negotiation Were Paid $400 Million Collectively Last Year
October 04, 2021: The fight over allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, and use the savings to expand guaranteed dental, hearing and vision benefits, continued in earnest on Capitol Hill this week. Executives from 33 pharmaceutical co Read More >