(Washington, DC) – Anxiety of older Americans over steep cost increases of prescription drugs is at the highest level since the start of Medicare Part D a decade ago, according to The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). Since ...
Category: Medicare Part D Articles
Medicare Costs Are Rising — Here’s Where You Are Most At Risk
Healthcare costs are taking some of the steepest jumps in years. Here are three of the biggest problem areas: Drug plan premiums: More than 15 million people enrolled in Medicare’s stand alone Part D prescription drug ...
Soaring Drug Costs Have More of Us Demanding To Know Why
By Mary Johnson, Editor Over the past year I’ve been horrified to learn about the pricing tactics of what can only be described as the Pharmaceutical Jihad. Anyone with a chronic health condition knows the feeling whe ...
Unprecedented Generic Drug Price Spikes Wreaking Havoc
Millicent Graves of Williamsburg, Virginia, recently was shocked to discover a huge price variance in different forms of the very same generic drug, one that she needs to treat psoriasis. When she filled her prescription ...
An Obamacare Repeal Would Increase Beneficiaries’ Part D Costs
A total repeal of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known to most as “Obamacare,” forms a key component of budget plans recently passed by the U.S. House and Senate. But so far there’s been little discussion about the negati ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: June 2015
Q: My prescription drug plan denied coverage on a medication to control a severe chronic health problem. Over the years I’ve tried other treatments but they are either ineffective, or had dangerous side effects, and I ha ...
Benefit Bulletin: May 2015
Obama’s Medicare Proposals — What Obama Giveth, Obama Taketh Away President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget contains proposals that would cut Medicare spending by $423 billion over the next ten years. The cuts would come o ...
Benefit Bulletin: February 2015
Reforming Medicare: How Can We Keep It Affordable? Congress has debated a number of proposals that would shift a greater share of Medicare's costs to beneficiaries in recent years. Some of those proposals are likely t ...
New Medicare/Medicaid Managed Care Pilot Program Off To Confusing Start In Central Virginia
By Mary Johnson My long time neighbor, Andrew S., was born severely disabled with cerebral palsy. At 41, he's cared for by his mom and family who among other things make sure he takes six pills a day of pric ...
Benefit Bulletin: August 2014
How Medicare Can Save Billions: Stop Assigning Seniors To The Wrong Drug Plans A new study finds that Medicare is spending billions of dollars more than necessary because low-income seniors are randomly assigned to ...
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