President Biden Signs Bill to Delay Medicare Payment Cuts Last Wednesday President Biden signed legislation temporarily halting cuts to Medicare providers that would likely have had a negative impact on seniors who r ...

Fully Vaccinated? Anxious to start traveling again?  Here’s important news for you. Congress is out of session until April 12, but we have important news regarding updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control ...

House Passes Bill to Stop Cuts in Medicare Payments – but Senate Passage in Doubt Passage of legislation in Congress is more complicated than most people realize.  The Constitution allows each chamber of Congress to s ...

Surprise!  Congress Passes Legislation Banning Surprise Medical Bills Shannon Benton, Executive Director Last year, more than one-fourth of participants in TSCL’s Senior Survey reported that they had received a “su ...

Using Generic Drugs Could Save Billions of Dollars A new study by the Journal of the American Medical Association says that the Medicare Part D program could have saved roughly $1.7 billion in 2017 if doctors and pati ...

Health Care System Weaknesses Magnified During Pandemic During the coronavirus pandemic, health care in the United States, or at least certain parts of it, has received more attention than ever before.  As a society w ...

Medicare Pays More for Drugs than Medicaid Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report that revealed Medicare outpatient plans are three times more expensive for the same drugs as those covered b ...

Will Our New Congress Pass a Benefit Boost? By Shannon Benton, Executive Director As our nation goes through the process of getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and getting our lives back on track, TSCL is working on a ...