Health Affairs7d
Are Medicare Fee Schedules Appropriate For Commercial Populations?
The difficulty that stakeholders face in comparing contracts with different structures could be solved by a standardized ...
ConsumerAffairs12d
Medicare vs Medicaid
Medicare covers over 66 million people, and Medicaid covers over 80 million people, making them the largest U.S. agencies helping seniors and their caregivers pay for health care. Life in later ...
RFK Jr. Confused Medicare and Medicaid: Here's the Difference
The HHS Secretary nominee confused Medicare and Medicaid programs, though he would be responsible for them if confirmed. We ...
Commonwealth Fund2d
Drug Costs and Their Impact on Care: Insights from Medicare Patients and Providers
Providers are sympathetic to Medicare enrollees’ concerns but don’t agree on their role in helping patients find less costly ...
The Washington Post26d
Medicare to negotiate price of Ozempic, Wegovy weight-loss drugs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identified 15 drugs it has selected for price negotiations with ... crowning achievements in the health-care space,” Neera Tanden, the ...
Moving past repealing Obamacare, Republicans still plan major health care cuts
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans may no longer be pushing to wholly repeal Obamacare, but big cuts to the ...
Commonwealth Fund6d
Do Medicare Advantage Provider Networks Change the Way Beneficiaries Use Health Care?
Medicare Advantage plans are popular, but some have limited provider networks, while and others require high cost sharing for ...
RFK JR. grilled on Medicare: What is Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B and Medicaid? What are they?
Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on if and how he would reform Medicaid and Medicare during his first confirmation ...
Health Affairs1mon
Medicaid And CHIP: Program Improvements And The Need To Protect Them
Today, leaders of the Medicaid program ... services and to compare those rates to Medicare reimbursement levels. These actions will help support more high-quality health care providers in caring ...