Costs Grow for Common Medicare Drugs
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After some initial success containing drug prices, private insurers in the new Medicare prescription drug program may be losing their leverage over drug manufacturers as they try to hold down medicine costs for seniors and the federal government, House investigators have found.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise about 17.4 percent next year, the Bush administration said yesterday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program&#39;s 40-year history.
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Medicare patients will have more prescription drug coverage options next year as additional companies offer plans nationwide and many change current offerings, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 4, 2004 - Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record $11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
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The basic Medicare premium will rise next year to $93.50 a month, an increase of $5, the Bush administration announced Tuesday.
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Be aware of the Medicare drug plan's gaps.
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President Bush promised Congress that his Medicare prescription drug benefit would cost no more than $400 billion over 10 years, but once the legislation was enacted, federal actuaries boosted the estimate to $534 billion.
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WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year, the Bush administration said Friday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program's 40-year-history...
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Kidney dialysis patients covered by Medicare are receiving escalating doses of an expensive anti-anemia drug, despite growing evidence that aggressive treatment raises the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration announced a proposal Monday to expand Medicare coverage for certain clinical trials for cancer drugs and pay cancer doctors to measure patient reaction to potent medication.
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Drug makers such as Pfizer Inc. , the world's biggest, slowed average price increases on US prescription medicines in the six months ended Sept. 30 as a Medicare discount-card program went into effect, the senior-advocacy group AARP said.
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Rising cost projections for the new Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices and allow pharmaceutical imports from Canada.
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With a new Medicare drug benefit set to begin in 2006, Americans 65 and older can expect to spend a large and growing share of their Social Security checks on
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Taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if soaring Medicaid reimbursements for prescription medicines more closely matched
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The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with incomes over about $80,000 a year, administration officials said yesterday.
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Physician reimbursement accounts for a third of the increase, and it could become a target for political battle. Washington -- The steep rise in next year&#39;s Medicare Part B premiums can be tied in part to
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Medicare premiums will rise 17.4 percent next year, or $11.60 a month, the largest dollar increase in the program&#39;s 40-year history, the US Health and Human Services Department said Friday.