No matter which party wins control of Congress, the high cost of drugs remains a hot issue that still needs to be dealt with. In our last update, we gave the list of the ten drugs that the Biden administration negotiated ...

In a separate announcement last week, CMS said that overall Medicare payments to physicians and clinicians will be reduced by an average of 2.93% next year. The increase in payments to surgical centers mentioned above is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...