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On April 8, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a long-awaited favorable Advisory Opinion (AO 24-02) for a charitable...

Key Drug Pricing Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 - I. Introduction - On Sunday, August 7, 2022, the United States Senate passed the most...

Aduhelm, the first new Alzheimer’s drug in 18 years, may not work. But states and Medicare may pay billions of dollars for it anyway.

The changes, finalized today, are generally effective for the 2022 plan year and will potentially lower enrollee cost sharing on some of the most expensive prescription drugs.

Medicaid, through young adults signing up, you mentioned 3 million young adults on their parents plan, the over 6 million people already enrolled, those are a lot of uninsured people. >> speaking of uninsured, we still have 35 million uninsured after today. >> right. >> approximately. what is the plan -- who are those folks? and when do you expect to get insurance -- when do you expect them to get on the rolls in some form or another? >> this is not a one-year project. the congressional budget o...

Day tomorrow and the next day and the day after that as we can. you know, whats interesting is insurers and pharmacies go through this every year. they went through this before the affordable care act was ever passed because people change policies, because seniors change programs in the part d program. they know how to handle this. weve worked very closely with them because we know theyll be a spotlight tomorrow. we dont want anybody to have problems but we know some people will. thats why weve ...

The bush white house unveiled medicare part d, the prescription drug program that today were going to take a deep dive into. that rocky rollout from eight years ago, one that may give the current administration reason to hope for better days ahead. we go back to the spring and summer of 2005. then president bush and his officials traveled the country trying to sell the public on medicare part d. >> one of the reasons ive come to this center is to encourage caregivers and sons and daughters and c...

Take money out. make what you pay the doctors or hospitals less. but the real interesting and important thing is to try to transform the system going forward so that were not spending increases well beyond inflation or the growth in gdp. thats going to be the key. >> so part of the transformation here would be to allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices the same as veteran programs? >> thats one possibility. theres various ways to bring drug prices down. >> what would it do? how much...

But the real interesting and important thing is to try to transform the system going forward so that were not spending increases well beyond inflation or the growth in gdp. thats going to be the key. >> so part of the transformation here would be to allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices the same as veteran programs? >> thats one possibility. theres various ways to bring drug prices down. >> what would it do? how much money? >> im not exactly sure what you could get, but we know, f...

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