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News Articles: medicare

Medicare negotiations on drug prices can happen sooner for pills than many drugs that are injected.

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  • Health

Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices

The action is intended to build upon the existing program for Medicare drug price negotiations, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act that passed during the Biden administration.

April 17, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

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  • Health

From TV to CMS: How Dr. Oz could shape Medicare and Medicaid

Dr. Oz lacks policy experience but has TV show chops. Tom Scully, who led Medicare & Medicaid for President George W. Bush, argues that Oz is well-suited to be a spokesman for Trump's health care agenda.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
Dr. Mehmet Oz testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in Washington D.C. on Friday in his bid to be named administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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  • Health

Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump's pick to lead Medicare and Medicaid, gets his Senate hearing

Dr. Mehmet Oz is set to appear before the Senate Finance committee Friday for his confirmation hearing to be the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
The federal government has the power to negotiate the prices Medicare pays for some drugs.

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  • Health

Medicare targets 15 more drugs for price negotiations -- including Ozempic

On its last weekday in power, the Biden Administration has chosen the next batch of drugs up for price negotiation in Medicare. 

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
A health care worker sits at a laptop

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  • Health Care

Medicare recipients will lose access to some telehealth providers at the end of the year

One of the permanent changes for Medicare patients is the ability to receive telehealth services for behavioral/mental health care in their home.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Medicare could see changes under the Trump administration, including a shift toward Medicare Advantage.

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  • Health

Trump’s win could accelerate the privatization of Medicare

The former president's pending return to the White House could alter the very nature of Medicare, the nearly 60-year-old federal health care program.

November 07, 2024
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By:
  • Stephanie Armour
Vice President Harris talks to hosts of ABC's <em>The View</em> during a commercial break on Oct. 8.

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  • Politics

Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the 'sandwich generation'

Harris used ABC’s The View — a popular daytime television talk show — to unveil a new pledge squarely aimed at women who take care of aging parents as well as their own kids.

October 08, 2024
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  • Deepa Shivaram
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  • Health

Medicare negotiations for lower drug prices near the finish line

Medicare's new authority to negotiate lower prescription drug prices represents a signature accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration. Here's what to know as the first set of talks wraps up.

July 30, 2024
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Family members often provide caregiving for people with dementia and it can take a financial and emotional toll.

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  • Health

Medicare explores a new way to support caregivers of dementia patients

The government is launching an experimental program to ease the burden on caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. The idea is to keep patients healthier without exhausting their families.

July 04, 2024
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By:
  • Alex Olgin and
  • Dan Gorenstein
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Medicare bill in Independence, Mo., July 30, 1965. At right is former President Harry Truman. The Supreme Court's pending Idaho abortion ruling may hinge on how federal spending power might protect doctors against a state's criminal code. For guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, when the promise of federal funding finally persuaded hospitals in the Jim Crow South to desegregate.

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  • News

Can Medicare money protect doctors from abortion crimes? It worked before, desegregating hospitals

The Supreme Court's decision regarding Idaho's abortion ban may hinge on whether federal spending power can protect doctors against a state's criminal code. Justices questioning this power could look to the launch of Medicare. Two years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, health care remained segregated by race across the South, and Black patients were denied treatment at many hospitals.

May 23, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Social Security's finances have improved slightly in the last year. But benefits are still facing an automatic cut in less than a decade unless Congress takes steps to prop up the program.

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  • Economy

The clock is ticking to fix Social Security as retirees face automatic cut in 9 years

Social Security's finances have improved slightly in the last year. But the popular retirement program still faces big challenges including the threat of automatic benefit cuts in less than a decade.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Medicare enrollees with two or more chronic conditions are eligible for Chronic Care Management, which pays doctors to check in with those patients monthly. But the service hasn't caught on.

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  • Health Care

Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

Most Medicare enrollees have two or more chronic conditions, making them eligible for a program that rewards physicians for doing more to manage their care. But not many doctors have joined.

April 17, 2024
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By:
  • Phil Galewitz and
  • Holly K. Hacker

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  • Mental Health

Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid

A report from the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general finds a dire shortage of mental health care providers in Medicaid and Medicare, which together serve some 40% of Americans.

April 03, 2024
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
People who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid face maddening challenges accessing health care. The government spends $500 billion on this care, yet patients often can't get what they need.

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  • On Disabilities

Vulnerable Americans are stuck in a Medicare-Medicaid maze. Is a fix in sight?

A bipartisan Senate bill, dropping Thursday, promises better health care for some of the poorest, sickest Americans, who are known as "duals" because they qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid.

March 14, 2024
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  • Leslie Walker and Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs
The $81,739.40 bill for her mother's air-ambulance ride arrived less than two weeks after she died, Alicia Wieberg said.

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  • Health

Her air-ambulance ride wasn't covered by Medicare. It will cost her family $81,739

A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride.

February 27, 2024
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  • Tony Leys and
  • Emily Siner
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