Only 4 in 10 U.S. retail pharmacies carry buprenorphine, USC research finds, with access even more limited in Black and Latino communities.
Part D plans are accelerating cost-shifting to beneficiaries, many of whom won’t reach the law’s new spending cap, a USC Schaeffer Center white paper reports.
USC research also found that independent pharmacies and those in low-income, Black or Latino communities were more likely to be excluded from the preferred networks.
A USC-led project provides updated estimates of the financial toll on patients, care partners and society.
USC research finds most stand-alone Part D plans now link out-of-pocket costs of many brand name drugs to often-inflated list prices.
Monthly out-of-pocket costs were dramatically lower in Medicare Advantage plans, according to a study co-authored by Erin Trish of the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
Julie Zissimopoulos examines proposal to expand Medicare to cover the costs of long-term care at home and include vision and hearing benefits for seniors.
Julie Zissimopoulos examines proposal to expand Medicare to cover the costs of long-term care at home and include vision and hearing benefits for seniors.
USC Schaeffer Center research on “pharmacy benefit managers” has the attention of the FTC and Congress, which has called executives to testify next week.
USC study suggests Supreme Court’s abortion decision has had wider ramifications for women’s reproductive health than previously thought.
