Early prescription refills by mail-order pharmacies cost Medicare and patients $3 billion over two years, from 2021–2023, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Mail-order pharmacies ...

Specialty medications are driving up dermatology drug spending, with an annual increase of 29.3% from 2013 to 2022. Prescription growth, not price increases, is the primary driver of increased ...

Last December, CMS announced that it would terminate the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (MA VBID) model due to “substantial and unmitigable costs to the Medicare Trust Funds.” ...

Medicare patients may have noticed a cost increase in prescription drugs due as drug insurers respond to a cap placed on out-of-pocket costs. “It’s a complicated story,” said Rich Daly, a senior ...