By next year, enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans is expected to exceed 50% of the entire Medicare-eligible population. For the first time ever, the majority of Medicare beneficiaries will receive health benefits provided by a private health plan, rather than through traditional fee-for-service Medicare. As we wrap up the 2022 open enrollment period, it’s clear …
There have been significant investments at an ever-increasing rate – both in academia and industry – to develop new therapies in therapeutic areas and scientific approaches. In 2019, the US pharmaceutical industry invested $83 billion in research and development, about 10 times the amount invested in the entire 1980s (adjusted for inflation) (1). Yet the …
The Medicare & You Handbook is mailed to qualified consumers. Photo: Susan Morse/Health Financing News U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Roger Marshall, MD (R-KS) introduced the bipartisan Medicare & You Handbook Improvement Act, which aims to ensure that when seniors weigh their Medicare coverage options, they have necessary information. need on the choice of …
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