24 million enrolled in Medicare drug plan
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Nearly 24 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration says it is baffled over how few Medicare beneficiaries are signing up for a demonstration program that subsidizes expensive prescription drugs.
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More than 40 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug and one-in-six takes at least three, the government reported Thursday.
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Medicare patients&#39; monthly premiums for outpatient care will jump a record $11.60 next year, while deductibles for hospitalized patients will rise $36, the biggest jump in 14 years.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- Requiring enrollees to get permission before filling prescriptions for proton pump inhibitor (PPI) anti-ulcer drugs enabled the Georgia Medicaid program to cut its prescription drug costs by &#36;20.6 million in a year, says a study in latest issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.
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Retirees lucky enough to have employer-sponsored health insurance will likely keep their prescription drug benefits in 2006, when Medicare launches its drug coverage, a new survey found.
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MONDAY, Nov. 22 (HealthDay News) -- One part of the new Medicare drug plan passed by Congress earlier this year could live up to its advance clippings and save people a lot of money. But some people could end up spending more than &#36;750 out-of-pocket even after they participate in the program.
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President Bush&#39;s signature accomplishment in health care was the passage of a Medicare reform bill last fall that provided, for the first time, coverage for prescription drugs.
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Amid Social Security debate, this week's news on drug-benefit costs hint at a $27 trillion Medicare obligation.
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Health-care providers and pundits are applauding the medicare deal while trying to figure out who will get what. The deal, announced early yesterday, will see $18 billion over six years flowing to the provinces
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OTTAWA (CP) - Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers poking holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of &#36;58.1 billion over 10 years.
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The new law has touched off a battle between insurance companies and drug companies that could determine how many medicines will be readily available to Medicare beneficiaries.
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday afternoon the largest increase ever in Medicare premiums, an increase of over 17 percent that will affect 38.
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A survey of US households released Thursday finds almost half of Americans take at least one prescription medication and one in six take three or more.
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More than 47 million Americans receiving Social Security will get a 2.7 percent increase -- an extra $25, on average -- in their monthly checks next year, but much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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OTTAWA (CP) - First ministers were expected Wednesday to complete an agreement that would pump an additional &#36;18 billion into medicare over six years.
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Advocacy groups for older people and the disabled urged lawmakers on Wednesday to let more people enroll in the Medicare drug plan this year without penalty.