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Health care insurer urges Oregon lawmakers to address homelessness crisis in rural areas
27 Mar 2024 23:52 GMT
… on homelessness in southern Oregon that exposes the roots … findings, AllCare is urging Oregon lawmakers to ease zoning … Medicare and Medicaid, which covers low-income people.
Homelessness increased in Oregon … who are not addicted to drugs, the report said.
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COLUMN: Oregon’s most common Medicare questions, answered
27 Mar 2024 18:16 GMT
… prescription drug insurance. Most Oregon public employees also have access to Medicare … covering your prescription drugs.
Tip: Before reviewing Medicare insurance plans, ask … provides your prescription drugs, you could forgo other drug insurance without …
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Medicare 2.0: Comprehensive Reform To Strengthen America’s Health Insurance Program for Older Adults
19 Mar 2024 13:57 GMT
… Modernize prescription drug policy
Existing prescription drug affordability challenges
Prescription drugs are an … don’t take their medications at all.
Medicare patients across both … qualified health center model and Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations, …
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With Idaho’s Crapo and Oregon’s Wyden working on PMB policy, partisan rancor takes a brief vacation
19 Mar 2024 11:15 GMT
… seniors) to obtain their needed medications. And there was no “ … now. Oversight protections for Medicare Part D have fallen short … lower out-of-pocket Medicare and Medicaid costs for … result in higher drug prices for consumers across Oregon and nationwide. …
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Oregon Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act in Limbo
10 Mar 2024 03:16 GMT
… prescription drug with a wholesale acquisition cost (“WAC”) exceeding the Medicare Part … D specialty drug threshold; (2) annually … most directly affects drug manufacturers who market prescription drugs in Oregon—as it …
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U.S. needs bipartisan solution to medication shortages
15 Mar 2024 10:09 GMT
… of shortages occur in generic drugs, and 56 percent of … of 40 percent of generic medication markets are supplied by … our reimbursement systems, including under Medicare, offer little opportunity or incentive … Chair Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and I followed the …
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Kotek signing expansive drug addiction bill while reviewing other proposals
14 Mar 2024 20:29 GMT
… small amounts of hard drugs, reversing part of Measure … has provisions to offer drug users multiple opportunities to … for patients with insurance. Medicare, which insures people 65 and … 501c(3) public charity. Oregon Capital Chronicle maintains editorial …
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Gov. Kotek signing expansive drug addiction bill while reviewing other proposals
08 Mar 2024 23:22 GMT
… of small amounts of hard drugs, reversing part of Measure … has provisions to offer drug users multiple opportunities to … for patients with insurance. Medicare, which insures people 65 and … private equity from controlling Oregon medical practices by limiting …
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COLUMN: Selecting a Medicare plan as a public retiree
29 Feb 2024 22:22 GMT
… thorny question that many Oregon public employees confront each … determine eligibility.)
In this Medicare-counseling conversation, one spouse … medical spending limit).
Prescription drugs: This comparison is more … steps for using PERS’ drug-price website.
Those …
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Patients across the country say they STILL can't get life saving drugs a week after cyberattack by 'foreign nation' on America's biggest health insurer
28 Feb 2024 19:58 GMT
… historic shortages of lifesaving drugs like chemotherapy and antibiotics. … but instead uses Humana Medicare Advantage, which is insurance … into the buttock. The drug, which contains the … paying for the medication online at Oregon-based pharmacy Samaritan …