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This week, the Legal Action Center released a report identifying gaps in Medicare’s coverage of common and recommended treatments for substance use disorders compared to private insurance and Medicaid.
Historically, Medicare has done significant work in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health status and access to health care, including driving the desegregation of America’s hospital systems in the 1960s. However, as a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation demonstrates, that work remains incomplete. Not only do racial and ethnic disparities persist, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated them.
Last week, Medicare Rights sent a sign-on letter from 50 state and national organizations to the U.S. Department of Health
A new research paper demonstrates that cost-sharing in Medicare’s prescription drug program causes people to avoid care, to the detriment
The Biden administration has taken a number of steps to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, including outlining a national
This week, the Biden administration began work to reverse harmful immigration rules and policies that were put in place by
The long-awaited vaccine to protect against COVID-19 is being distributed to health care workers, residents of long-term care facilities, and,
The non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently released an issue brief on the various state Medicaid waivers issued by the
At the end of 2020, Congress passed sweeping legislation addressing the COVID-19 public health emergency, updating Medicare and Medicaid policies,
The Medicare Rights Center looks forward to working with the Biden administration to protect and strengthen Medicare as well as
This week, the Legal Action Center released a report identifying gaps in Medicare’s coverage of common and recommended treatments for substance use disorders compared to private insurance and Medicaid.
Historically, Medicare has done significant work in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health status and access to health care, including driving the desegregation of America’s hospital systems in the 1960s. However, as a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation demonstrates, that work remains incomplete. Not only do racial and ethnic disparities persist, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated them.
Last week, Medicare Rights sent a sign-on letter from 50 state and national organizations to the U.S. Department of Health
A new research paper demonstrates that cost-sharing in Medicare’s prescription drug program causes people to avoid care, to the detriment
The Biden administration has taken a number of steps to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, including outlining a national
This week, the Biden administration began work to reverse harmful immigration rules and policies that were put in place by
The long-awaited vaccine to protect against COVID-19 is being distributed to health care workers, residents of long-term care facilities, and,
The non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently released an issue brief on the various state Medicaid waivers issued by the
At the end of 2020, Congress passed sweeping legislation addressing the COVID-19 public health emergency, updating Medicare and Medicaid policies,
The Medicare Rights Center looks forward to working with the Biden administration to protect and strengthen Medicare as well as
