Whether you are enrolled in traditional Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan, Medicare covers the prescription drugs you get from the pharmacy under Medicare Part D. The vast majority of people with...
Diane Archer
Rural hospitals accept Medicare Advantage at their peril
Sarah Jane Tribble reports for Kaiser Health News that small rural hospitals have been hit hard by Medicare Advantage. The CEO of Battle Mountain General Hospital, in a Nevada gold mining town...
Pharmacies sue pharmacy benefits manager for overcharging them
In a health care world in which, among other things, the government is now overpaying insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans $140 billion this year without seeming to blink, pharmaceutical...
UnitedHealth renames company responsible for massive...
A while back, I reported on a story in Stat News that exposed a division of UnitedHealth, NaviHealth that uses artificial intelligence, AI, to deny thousands of Medicare Advantage claims, in seconds...
Want your prescription drugs quickly? Get drone delivery
Bruce Japsen writes for Forbes on drone delivery of prescription drugs. If you happen to live in certain cities, you can now have your prescriptions dropped outside your door within an hour of your...
Dental care is increasingly unaffordable
The cost of dental care has become prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of Americans. In a new study by Synchrony, more than nine in ten Americans say that they would consider putting off...
What are your Medicare premiums in 2024?
Medicare only covers about half of a typical person’s health care costs. People with Medicare generally pay a monthly Medicare Part B premium, more than 20 percent of their medical and...
Insurers will continue misleading people, notwithstanding new...
Rachel Roubein writes for the Washington Post on the new rules the government has put in place to protect older adults and people with disabilities from misleading marketing by corporate health...
2023: Five things to think about when choosing between...
The Annual Medicare Open Enrollment period begins October 15 and ends December 7. If you have Medicare, you are likely to see endless ads and receive lots of mail from an assortment of insurers...
Importing drugs from abroad should be legal
In a new paper, Stephen Salant, a professor at the University of Michigan, makes a compelling case that people in the US should be able to import drugs from abroad and that it is safe to do...