This Thanksgiving, we are grateful to advocates like you, for your tireless work to improve policies, programs, and lives. The recent passage of the Build Back Better (BBB) budget reconciliation bill in the U.S. House of Representatives shows just how important your voices are. The House-passed bill incorporates many of […]
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Medicare Part B standard monthly premium would be increasing by 15% ($21.60) in 2022, from $148.50 to $170.10. While this significant jump is the largest in 15 years, for most beneficiaries, the 5.9% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to Social […]
As the “Build Back Better” (BBB) budget reconciliation bill begins its journey through Congress, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has updated a valuable resource explaining the budgetary effects and huge public good of many of the bill’s major health provisions. These provisions include several that have been long-standing goals of […]
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released a report analyzing the Medicare Advantage (MA) plan landscape for 2022. The report found that, for 2022, the average Medicare beneficiary has access to 39 MA plans—more than double the number available in 2017. About six in ten plans offered in 2022 […]
In a significant reversal and landmark win for beneficiary advocates, lawmakers this week announced an agreement to add prescription drug reforms to the “Build Back Better” (BBB) budget reconciliation bill. Medicare Rights applauds this development. The negotiated deal takes important steps to meaningfully improve prescription drug affordability for people with […]
