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by Bill Kadereit, President, NRLN

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President’s Forum 136 – Video/Podcast – Congress Must Take Action to Reduce the Price of Prescription Drug 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan would allow the government to negotiate the price of up to 250 name-brand drugs for Medicare beneficiaries — an idea that many Republicans hate but that President Trump embraced during his 2016 campaign.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times

The NRLN has produced Video/Podcast Series 2, Episode 3 for 2022 – Congress Must Take Action to Reduce the Price of Prescription Drugs. In this episode, Ed Beltram, NRLN VP-Communications, and I address the high cost of prescription drugs, how an Rx discount card provides savings, NRLN lobbying efforts to reduce drug prices, and House and Senate bills we support.

Bill Kadereit, President
National Retiree Legislative Network

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Congress Must Take Action to Reduce the Price of Prescription Drugs.
Series 2, Episode 3 | April 13, 2022

The NRLN has produced Video/Podcast Series 2, Episode 3 for 2022 – Congress Must Take Action to Reduce the Price of Prescription Drugs. In this episode, Ed Beltram, NRLN VP-Communications, and I address the high cost of prescription drugs, how an Rx discount card provides savings, NRLN lobbying efforts to reduce drug prices, and House and Senate bills we support.

 

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Appeals Court Ruling Favors Medicare Patients

A federal appeals court has ruled that Medicare patients are entitled to an appeal process at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) when their hospital stay classifications are changed from “inpatient” to “observation” status.

You may recall the NRLN has issued Action Alerts on this issue that has resulted in retirees not being aware they were misclassified as “under observation” by hospitals. After release, if they spent weeks in rehab centers, they received bills for tens of thousands of dollars. This ruling could result in significant financial savings for Medicare Part A patients. If a senior needed skilled nursing care following a stay in a hospital, Medicare would not cover the cost unless he/she was in the hospital as an “inpatient” for at least three days (not including the date of discharge). There was not a process to appeal to Medicare a hospital’s classification of “outpatient.”

Under the court’s decision, Medicare beneficiaries whose status was changed from “inpatient” to “observation” can now appeal the hospital’s classification to Medicare. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the trial court decision that had found that Medicare’s lack of appeals procedures on this issue violates the Due Process Clause of the constitution.

PHARMA CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONGRESS

How much did your U.S. Representatives and Senators take as campaign contributions from the Pharmaceutical and Health Products Industry for their recent election campaigns and the current 2019-20 one? Could this be a reason why bills to reduce the price of prescription drugs are not being passed?

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It’s Time to Provide Health Coverage Tax Credit

Ask your Representative and Senators to introduce a bill to make HCTC permanent or at least extend it through the end of 2022.

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