Medicare Part D Enrollment, Premiums, and Cost Sharing in 2026
The average monthly premium decreased for PDPs in 2026, but the premium for Part D coverage is still substantially higher for PDPs than for MA-PDs The temporary Part D premium…
Trial: Vitamin K Supplement Curbs Coronary Atherosclerosis
A Dutch trial tested the effects of taking the vitamin K homologue menaquinone-7 (MK-7) on measures of atherosclerosis. The study showed a small but statistically significant slowing of coronary artery…
How Medicare Advantage Rebates Disadvantage Medicare’s Stand-Alone Drug Plan Market
The Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit was designed to offer Medicare beneficiaries the choice of drug coverage from either stand-alone prescription drug plans (PDPs) for people in traditional Medicare…
The Drip, Drip, Drip of Declining Coverage
The Host When Congress failed to extend the covid-era enhanced subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, many experts predicted millions of people would lose coverage because they would be unable…
Make the Diagnosis: Chest Pain, Dyspnea, Palpitations, and More: What’s Her Diagnosis?
Presentation A 45-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with complaints of chest pain, heart palpitations that developed earlier that day, and dyspnea that began 3 days prior and had…
Federal Register :: Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of ( printed page 35479) Health Technology and Products (OHTP), has been established. This…
Medicare Faces Funding Problems in 2033
Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, unchanged from last year’s estimate, while Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a…
Federal Register :: Announcement of the Approval of COLA as an Accreditation Organization for the Specialty of Histocompatibility Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988
I. Background On October 31, 1988, the Congress enacted the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) (Pub. L. 100-578). CLIA amended section 353 of the Public Health Service Act.…
Tailoring Treatment for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in Older Patients
Despite being more commonly diagnosed in women ages 40 or younger, an estimated 10% to 15% of early triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cases are diagnosed in patients over 70. Current…
Nearly a Third of Americans Will Live in States With Legal Aid in Dying by September
Jules Netherland traveled from her home in the Bronx to the New York state Capitol in Albany several times in the past few years, hoping to persuade the legislature to…
