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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

Currently, individual Medicare Part D plan sponsors negotiate rebates but the government is explicitly prohibited from interfering in those negotiations. One proposal is a cap on out-of-pocket costs, primarily to help beneficiaries with expensive chronic conditions that can face large, even catastrophic, out-of-pocket spending every year.