The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has recently passed the bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act to increase transparency in prescription drug pricing and hold pharmacy benefit m ...
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Controversy over Medicare Advantage Overpayments Continues
In our February update, we told you that according to federal audits, eight of the ten biggest Medicare Advantage insurers — representing more than two-thirds of the market — have deliberately overcharged Medicare for th ...
New Estimates Released on Medicare Solvency
Each year the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees release a report about the financial health of both Medicare and Social Security. The good news is that Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which helps ...
Does The U.S. Tax Code Discriminate Against Seniors
Press Briefing 3.14.2023 ...
The Medicare Tax That Never Made It to Medicare
Press Briefing 3.7.23 The Medicare Tax That Never Made It ...
Millions could Lose Medicaid Coverage This Year
Roughly 84 million people in the U.S., including 7.2 million low-income seniors, are covered by Medicaid, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But as states b ...
After Charges of Fraud, Insurance Companies Push Back
Cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” is always part of the solution politicians bring up when they discuss how to reduce government spending. But there’s a debate about just what “waste, fraud, and abuse” really is. A c ...
Congress Off to a Slow Start
Congress is off to a slower start this year, even as critical issues that soon must be dealt with remain unsettled. This seems to be especially true in the House of Representatives, which in the past usually got its work ...
February 2023
Congress Off to a Slow Start Congress is off to a slower start this year, even as critical issues that soon must be dealt with remain unsettled. This seems to be especially true in the House of Representatives, which ...
Retirees Worried Their COLA Will Fall Short This Year
A new survey by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) suggests that fifty-four percent of older consumers remain unconvinced that their 8.7 percent Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will keep pace with rising ...