Prior to the election last fall President Trump announced he was going to send millions of senior citizens discount cards to help pay for the cost of prescription drugs.  But he didn’t give any details on how the federal ...

New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet  The new Congress has been sworn into office but little in the way of legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid has yet been introduced. ...

In mid-December there were reports that the Administration expected to begin sending out President Trump’s promised $200 drug discount cards to seniors by Jan. 1.  However, we have not heard any report about whether or n ...

In yet a third judicial ruling, The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a rule by the Trump Administration that hospitals will have to publicly disclose the prices they negotiate with insur ...

Near the end of this past November President Trump issued two rules aimed at lowering prescription drug prices that affect Medicare beneficiaries. The rules followed up on executive orders that Trump signed in July. O ...

As we begin a new year, we hope you had the best holiday season possible under the conditions we all continue to face because of the coronavirus pandemic.  We know the past ten months have been extremely hard for many Am ...

Every year since the late 1990’s, Congress has ‘balanced’ the budget by declaring a pay cut to doctors’ Medicare services.  Every year, after the budget for the next year is revealed, this cut is rescinded. Again, nex ...

One of the issues high on TSCL’s agenda this year was putting an end to the practice of “surprise billing.” Surprise billing is when patients incur “surprise” medical bills when they unexpectedly receive out-of-networ ...

The flurry of activity in Congress has shared the top of the news this week with the continuing Covid-19 crisis and the beginning of the vaccine distribution program.  We try not to repeat news here that is available to ...