Medicare could have saved $3.6 billion on generic drugs in 2020
Jun 20, 2022
The authors say that Medicare could have saved up to $3.6 billion by purchasing generics at Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. prices.
Alabama, Michigan, Florida lead nation in Medicare Advantage enrollment rates
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 16, 2022
Medicare Advantage enrollment rates now top more than 50% of Medicare enrollees in 123 congressional districts, according to new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data analyzed by the Better Medicare...
Staff COVID-19 vaccinations have risen 25 percentage points under CMS mandate
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 18, 2022
COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing home staff jumped 25 percentage points nationally thanks in no small part to a CMS mandate imposed earlier this year.
Dual enrollment status, state regulations affect end-of-life care in assisted living: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 03, 2022
Dual Medicare / Medicaid enrollment, state regulations, and race and ethnicity affect access to end-of-life care in assisted living communities and where residents die, according to a new study published...
Some Medicare Advantage organizations are denying or delaying services to beneficiaries covered under Medicare rules, according to a report issued Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services...
Medicare beneficiaries can appeal gap in nursing home coverage, court rules
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 31, 2022
Thursday ruling from a three-judge appellate federal court in Connecticut paves the way for hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to appeal non-coverage of nursing home care after hospital stays.
States don’t wait as fate of federal COVID vaccine mandates remains uncertain
By
Lois A. Bowers
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 10, 2022
As employers wait to see whether the Supreme Court will issue stays against federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about two federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates on Jan. 7, the court announced Wednesday night.
Biden pledges to lower prescription drug prices for Americans
Dec 07, 2021
But the biggest policy change — letting Medicare negotiate prices for prescription drugs — will not start to lower costs until 2025.
Senior living, home most frequent destinations after hospital discharge of Medicare beneficiaries
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 29, 2021
Assisted living communities, retirement communities and homes remain the most frequent destinations for Medicare beneficiaries after inpatient hospital stays, according to the 2021 AHHQI Home Health Chartbook...