While this is not legislative news, it is important to let you know that a new study out of Scotland found that about 48 percent of people who had covid still hadn’t fully recovered from the virus after 18 months and are ...
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President Signs Order to Speed Up Efforts to Lower Drug Prices
President Joe Biden signed an executive order last Friday pushing federal officials to drive prescription drug costs down. The order requires the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to outline within 90 ...
CPI COLA Update 10.13.2022
Press Brief CPI – COLA Update October 13, 2022 For immediate use A Social Security cost–of–living–adjustment (COLA) of 8.7% is rare — enjoy it now. This may be the first and possibly the last time that b ...
Government Study Shows Corona Virus Vaccinations Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives Last Year
A new study from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, estimated that coronavirus vaccines were linked to roughly 670,000 to 680,000 fewer hospitalizations as we ...
Government’s Quality Ratings for Medicare Advantage Plans and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans Have Fallen
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, released its star ratings for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. Each year CMS calculates Medicare star ratings based on ...
New Senate Bill Threatens Lower Drug Prices
With Election Day just a month away it is a good time to restate that TSCL is a non-partisan organization. We do not pick sides between Democrats and Republicans, nor do we endorse candidates. However, what we do is e ...
Best Ways to Save: September 2022
Is Our Health System Pushing You Into Medical Debt? Some Ways To Avoid It By Mary Johnson, editor Even with Medicare coverage, older adults frequently carry debt for medical bills. Despite having other health ...
Ask the Advisor: September/October 2022
What Happened To The Effort To Add Dental Benefits To Medicare? Q: I recently had to get a tooth extracted. The practice that performed the oral surgery required me to sign a waiver stating that they do not particip ...
Legislative Update: September 2022
60% Of Older Adults Support Two Year Suspension of Tax on Social Security Benefits By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison TSCL is gearing up to ask Congress to enact legislation that would protect Social Securit ...
Benefit Bulletin: September/October 2022
Medicare Given Authority to Negotiate Drug Prices By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Legislation that will cut prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices was recently signed into law ...