New Medicare Rules on Drugs Balance Access Against Costs
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The new drug benefit guarantees patients access to medicines while giving insurance companies potent tools to control costs.
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WASHINGTON - Low-income seniors and those with extremely high prescription drug expenses will get the most from the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, according to a new study.
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DES MOINES, Iowa A mass mailing is under way nationwide to get Medicare-approved drug discount cards to low-income seniors. Officials say they targeted because they fall into an income bracket that makes them
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Oct. 7, 2004 - Medicare Advantage plans, the group program option to fee-for-service Medicare, are seeking to expand coverage to 1.6 more seniors and persons with disabilities and also lowering the cost
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Proposed cuts in Medicare payments for cancer drugs will be nearly double Bush administration estimates, potentially limiting access to care, according to a survey of cancer doctors.
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Drug companies could soon make more experimental drugs available for a fee to more patients with serious or life-threatening diseases that have no approved treatments, under revised rules the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed on Monday.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A groundbreaking Minnesota law is shining a rare light into the big money that drug companies spend on members of state advisory panels who help select which drugs are used in Medicaid programs for the poor and disabled.
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Some seniors have just a few more weeks to cash in on the new Medicare drug discount card. Up to $600 in free prescription drugs are available both this year and next to low-income seniors who have the card.
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Medicare&#39;s new prescription drug coverage should help most elderly, including some of the poorest beneficiaries, save money, but nearly a quarter will pay more for medicine
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Senior citizens and low-wage working Kansans now have access to lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and Europe through a program announced Tuesday by Gov.
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Viagra, the blockbuster impotence drug, will be paid for under Medicare's new prescription drug coverage, officials said on Tuesday.
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Medicare's new prescription drug  coverage should help most elderly, including some of the  poorest beneficiaries, save money, but nearly a quarter will  pay more for medicine, according to an analysis released on  Monday.
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The Medicare drug benefit has come in way under budget this year, which supporters boast is a testament to the benefits of competition.
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A US group advising Medicare on its new prescription drug benefit released a proposal on Thursday that could determine how likely the latest medicines are to be covered for the elderly.
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Millions of older Americans are confronting a temporary break in their Medicare drug coverage this month that will require them to pay the full cost of their prescriptions or face the painful prospect of going without.
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WASHINGTON - A day before the first presidential debate, the government's health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount cards championed by President Bush were confusing or inadequate.   "We found that these beneficiaries received very little mail from drug card sponsors that would enable them to make an informed choice among cards," the Health and Human Services Department inspector general wrote in the Sept...
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Roughly 19 million people are expected to reap some savings from Medicare&#39;s new prescription drug benefit, according to an independent analysis released Monday.