Download or read book The Medicare Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Increased Competition from Generic Drugs Has Affected Prices and Returns in the Pharmaceutical Industry written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prescription Drug Coverage Under Medicaid written by Jean Hearne and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage FOR DUMMIES Volume 2 of 2 EasyRead Large Bold Edition written by Patricia Barry and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prescription Drugs written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Medicines Affordable written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.
Download or read book Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control written by United States. Social and Rehabilitation Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coverage of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Under Medicare Part B written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicaid prescription drugs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rare Diseases and Orphan Products written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-04-03 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare diseases collectively affect millions of Americans of all ages, but developing drugs and medical devices to prevent, diagnose, and treat these conditions is challenging. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends implementing an integrated national strategy to promote rare diseases research and product development.
Download or read book Prescription Drug Coverage Under Medicaid written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicaid is a joint federal-state entitlement program that pays for services on behalf of certain groups of low-income persons. One of its most important benefits is prescription drug coverage. Beginning in January 2006, many of Medicaid's elderly and disabled beneficiaries began receiving their drug coverage under Medicare. Nonetheless, Medicaid drug coverage remains an important source of drugs for many low-income and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries and for Medicaid financing, an important source of funding in the nation's pharmaceutical markets. Outpatient prescription drug coverage under Medicaid is an optional benefit. If states choose to cover prescription drugs, they must be provided to Medicaid enrollees who are categorically needy, that is, to individuals who qualify for Medicaid on the basis of being in certain groups. In addition, states have the option of choosing to provide prescription drug coverage to medically needy individuals, persons who are not poor by cash welfare standards, but who require help with medical expenses. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia provide prescription drug coverage to all Medicaid beneficiaries. Prescription drug benefits under Medicaid are very broad. States can create formularies, or lists of preferred benefits, but certain federal rules keep actual coverage very comprehensive. Even in Medicaid managed care organizations, which are not subject to those rules, current practice combined with a directive from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ensures that drugs made available to fee-for- service enrollees must also be available to managed care enrollees. There are only 10 categories of prescription drugs that states are allowed to exclude from coverage and one category for which federal Medicaid funds cannot be used. Based on state financial reports for 2004, payments for Medicaid outpatient prescription drugs, net of federal rebates, were $30.4 billion, accounting for about 11% of payments for all Medicaid services. Since 1990, pharmaceutical manufacturers whose drugs are covered by state Medicaid programs are required to rebate a portion of states' payments for their products. States reported collecting a total of $8.8 billion in federal rebates on prescription drugs in 2004. On average, in 2003, the last year for which prescription drug spending by enrollee are available, per-person spending for Medicaid drugs was almost $1,120.1 Under the new Medicare Part D drug benefit rules, state Medicaid programs will continue to contribute to the cost of drugs offered to the dually eligible population under Medicare based on a specified formula. In addition, Medicaid administrations will be required to conduct eligibility determinations for individuals qualifying for low-income assistance for the new Medicare program. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 made a number of changes to the program's rules primarily relating to the financing of drugs and the cost sharing amounts that states are able to require Medicaid beneficiaries to pay for these drugs.
Download or read book Your Guide to Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage written by U. S. Department Human Services and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare prescription drug coverage (Part D) adds to your Medicare health care coverage. It helps you pay for both brand-name and generic drugs. Medicare drug plans are offered by insurance companies and other private companies approved by Medicare. You can get coverage two ways: Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (sometimes called "PDPs") add prescription drug coverage to Original Medicare, some Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) Plans, some Medicare Cost Plans, and Medicare Medical Savings Account (MSA) Plans; Medicare Advantage Plans (like an HMO or PPO) or other Medicare health plans that offer prescription drug coverage. You generally get all of your Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance), Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance), and Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage) through these plans. Medicare Advantage Plans with prescription drug coverage are sometimes called "MA-PDs." In this publication, the term "Medicare drug plans" means all plans that provide Medicare prescription drug coverage. You must choose and join a Medicare drug plan to get Medicare prescription drug coverage. Everyone with Medicare has to make a decision about prescription drug coverage. If you don't use a lot of prescription drugs now, you still may think about joining a Medicare drug plan to help lower your prescription drug costs now and help protect against higher costs in the future. If you're new to Medicare and already have other prescription drug coverage, you have new options to think about. If you aren't new to Medicare, you may want to look over your options to find drug coverage that meets your needs. You can join or switch Medicare drug plans between October 15-December 7 each year, with your coverage beginning January 1 of the following year. To join a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, you must have Medicare Part A or have Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance). To join a Medicare Advantage Plan or other Medicare health plan with prescription drug coverage, you must have Medicare Part A and Part B. You must also live in the service area of the Medicare health plan or drug plan you want to join. Medicare drug plans may be different from each other in the prescription drugs they cover, how much you have to pay, and which pharmacies you can use. All Medicare drug plans must give at least a standard level of coverage set by Medicare. However, plans offer different combinations of coverage and cost sharing. Having more than one plan to choose from helps you get the coverage you want at a price you can afford. Also available in Spanish.
Download or read book Prescription Drug Coverage Under Medicaid written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicaid Prescription Drug Pricing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicaid Prescription Drugs written by Sandra Olivia Barton and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competition and the Cost of Medicare s Prescription Drug Program written by Anna Cook and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (the Medicare Modernization Act, or MMA) substantially expanded the federal Medicare program by creating the prescription drug benefit known as Part D. In FY 2013, Medicare Part D covered 39 million people. The federal government spent $59 billion net of premiums on Part D in that year; after accounting for certain payments from states under the program, the net federal cost was $50 billion, which represented 10% of net federal spending for Medicare. A combination of broader trends in the prescription drug market and lower-than-expected enrollment in Part D has contributed to much lower spending for the program than projected when the MMA became law in 2003. This report examines the federal budgetary cost and competitive design of Medicare Part D and compares Medicare Part D and Medicaid Fee for Service. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.
