Tag: Medicare
One in four of the more than 900,000 Americans who have died from COVID resided in nursing homes. Yet two years into the pandemic, hesitancy about protective vaccines persists in the facilities in many states. In January, the Supreme Court upheld a regulation by the Biden administration that required all staff to be vaccinated in…
How Aduhelm presented Medicare officials with a real challenge. Aduhelm, a drug developed recently by Biogen, has raised enormously important issues for Medicare. Biogen’s initial proposed price for Aduhelm was $56,000 per patient per year. Because Aduhelm is administered intravenously by physicians, it would be covered under Medicare Part B. (Medicare Part D covers reta…
