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SCAN Group CEO Sachin Jain: Medicare Could Use a Major Facelift

Hospice News

There’s so much competition, and MA is based on small differences and benefits annually, whether it’s a Part B rebate, or a dental plan allowance, or some new tech gimmick that they’re attaching to a plan. Whereas competition should really be on outcomes on clinical performance, and long-term health outcomes.

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Inflation Reduction Act Imposes Prescription Drug Pricing Reforms

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Companies that raise prices faster than inflation will be required to pay Medicare a rebate. The Act creates a framework for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”) to negotiate prices for certain drugs covered under Medicare Parts B and D. What this means to you.

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Hospices, Lawmakers Target Medication Cost Reductions

Hospice News

A second order, issued in November 2020, would have eliminated certain rebates between drug companies and pharmacy benefit managers and some health plan sponsors. -President Joe Biden, in an executive order Trump signed executive orders to establish a “most favored nations” policy designed to ensure that U.S.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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But with the rebates and other things, they can get reducing, one, their costs because these are much more efficient. And a lot of people don’t know about it because it’s sort of distant out there, complex. But by educating folks, they can actually invest in things they maybe couldn’t afford on their own.