Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced, among other things, that general acute care hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers will receive an increase in payments made to them by Medica ...
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Cost-of-Living Adjustment for 2025 Announced at 2.5%
For Immediate Release: October 10, 2024 Cost-of-Living Adjustment for 2025 Announced at 2.5% The Social Security Administration announced that 2025’s COLA will be 2.5 percent on October 10. On average, ret ...
With One Month Left, COLA for 2025 Forecast at 2.5%
For Immediate Release: September 11, 2024 With One Month Left, COLA for 2025 Forecast at 2.5% According to The Senior Citizens League The TSCL Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) model predicts that the ...
August 2024
Congress returns to Washington this month in a race to fund the government, a race that they have lost regularly year after year. It doesn’t seem to matter which party is in control, and they just can’t get their work do ...
Think your Medical Bill isn’t quite Right?
Think your Medical Bill isn’t quite Right? It Might Pay to Ask Some Questions According to an article in Statnews: If you get a medical bill that you’re worried about, you should probably try to fight it, according ...
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) Accused of False Testimony
Drug middlemen, also known as PBMs, are accused of making false statements during congressional testimony last month as part of an investigation into the practices of these entities. House Oversight Chair James Comer ...
Medicare and Medicaid Services Statement
Last month, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released this statement: In August 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law. The law improves Medicare by expanding benefits, ...
Congress Begins Race They Already Know They’ll Lose
For the last several years, at this same time, we have warned that the specter of a government shutdown looms because Congress hasn’t finished one of the most important things they are supposed to do: fund the federal go ...
Press Brief 8.14.24 – 2025 COLA Projection is 2.57%
For Immediate Release: August 14, 2024 The Cost-of-Living Adjustment for 2025 Projected at 2.57% Our model points to a substantially lower cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for next year after the implementation of the ...
Some Medicare Advantage Plans to Have Fewer Benefits
Medicare Advantage (MA) programs have become very popular among seniors over the last several years. However, recent studies have largely found that Medicare Advantage plans cost the government and taxpayers more than tr ...