SENIORS TO GET 23 DRUG-PLAN OPTIONS US UNVEILS DRUG PLAN FOR SENIORSJeffrey Krasner Globe Staff
SENATE OKS DRUG PLAN FOR SENIORS BUT IT FACES ASSEMBLY OPPOSITION.(FRONT)Pommer, Matt
The sheer number of choices makes it extremely difficult for Medicare beneficiaries, many of whom must cope with declining cognitive abilities, to choose the best plan for themselves. This article proposes an alternative to the current system, where government acts as a broker to winnow the number...
Today the master plan is to combine Aetna’s claims data and analytics that identify which of its 22 million members are at risk for, say, developing diabetes or cardiac disease, with CVS’s capacity to guide them to testing and treatment before the disease progresses, at the pharmacies and...
Comprehensive health assessments for adults with intellectual disability living in the community: Weighing up the costs and benefits Gordon L.G. This retrospective analysis used data drawn from drug insurance plan records in Quebec, Canada. The sample contained 27,000 seniors using anti-asthma ... ...
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll in October found that 83% of Americans, including 95% of Democrats and 71% of Republicans, want the federal Medicare health plan for seniors to negotiate prices. "The pharma guys upped the ante in throwing everything but the kitchen sink against this," said ...
The proposed changes are based on recommendations from the Drug System Secretariat, which reviewed and consulted widely and found that Ontario was not getting good value for the money it spends on prescription drugs. Ontario sets drug reform plan "The reason these drugs require a prescription is ...
To quantify seniors' potential savings for switching to a new prescription drug plan (PDP) for 2011 and to assess predictors of which seniors could save most by reviewing their PDPs annually. This cross-sectional analysis included 404 Medicare beneficiaries 65 years or older who selected PDPs at ...
Many Seniors Do the Math and Decide Not to Sign Up for the Drug-Benefit Plan. The article reports that some senior citizens are calculating that the Medicare drug benefit will be more expensive than going without prescription coverag... Fuhrmans,Vanessa - Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition ...
For simplicity we only take into account the reduction in co-payment rather than the whole non-linear pricing policy in the public plan. The coinsurance of the public plan is 25 percent, which implies a 75 percent reduction in out-of-pocket cost for those without insurance. The 13 percent ...