National Medicare Education Week: The history of Medicare Part D
By Tom Wilbur | September 15, 2020
Today, in honor of National Medicare Education Week, we’ll be taking a quick look back at the history of Medicare, specifically the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit .
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How Medicare Part D supports patients
By Tom Wilbur | September 1, 2020
Since 2006, Medicare Part D has offered seniors and people living with disabilities affordable access to life-saving treatments through comprehensive prescription drug coverage. The benefit has...
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Supporting access to vaccines for Part D beneficiaries
By Tom Wilbur | August 12, 2020
Today, in honor of National Immunization Awareness Month, we’ll take a look at how Medicare Part D supports access to critical vaccines and strengthens public health. Vaccines represent some of...
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Medicare’s 55th anniversary: Celebrating the success of Part D
By Tom Wilbur | July 30, 2020
Today, we are excited to bring you a special edition of our Medicare Catalyst series in honor of Medicare’s 55th anniversary. On this date in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law...
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Three reasons why MedPAC’s latest Part D proposal would be bad for patients
By Tom Wilbur | July 14, 2020
The recently released Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) report to Congress recommends restructuring the Medicare Part D benefit and allowing plans greater flexibility to implement...
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PhRMA submits comments on CMS’s Part D specialty tier proposal
By Tom Wilbur | April 7, 2020
Yesterday, PhRMA submitted comments on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule on policy and technical changes to Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage.
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Three reasons the Senate Finance package is the wrong approach for patients
By Tom Wilbur | August 26, 2019
For more than a decade, Medicare Part D has successfully provided seniors and people with disabilities comprehensive prescription drug coverage, while its unique market-based structure has kept...
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Three things to know about the Part D GAO report
By Nicole Longo | August 16, 2019
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a new report looking at Medicare Part D and the role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the program. While the report provides a...
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No matter how you structure it, government arbitration is wrong for Medicare drug coverage
By Nicole Longo | June 27, 2019
Despite concerns from a broad group of stakeholders, some in Washington continue to push for imposing government arbitration on Medicare drug coverage to set the price of a medicine....
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What you should know: Government arbitration is the wrong way to change Medicare
By Juliet Johnson | June 10, 2019
As Washington looks to make changes to Medicare, there are right ways and wrong ways to address the challenges patients face. In recent weeks, policymakers have discussed imposing government...
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