Trump Administration Will Limit Medicare Spending on Pricey Bandages

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15 July 2025 at 18:05

By: Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas

In an about-face, the administration is cracking down on so-called skin substitutes, overused treatments that cost Medicare more than $10 billion last year.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Medicare and Medicaid administrator, in May. The Trump administration has twice delayed Biden-era rules to slash payments for expensive skin bandages.

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Young Americans Can’t Keep Funding Boomers and Beyond
1 September 2024 at 13:00

Young Americans Can’t Keep Funding Boomers and Beyond

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1 September 2024 at 13:00

By: C. Eugene Steuerle and Glenn Kramon

The U.S. government spending is too heavily lavished on its older people at the expense of its young.

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U.S. Makes Initial Offers in Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
1 February 2024 at 10:03

U.S. Makes Initial Offers in Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

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1 February 2024 at 10:03

By: Noah Weiland

The offers amount to a starting gun in the price talks between the federal government and the makers of 10 prescription drugs that have been selected for negotiations.

The Biden administration has selected 10 medicines for price negotiations, including Farxiga, a drug from AstraZeneca for diabetes, heart failure and chronic kidney disease.

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Trump Administration Will Limit Medicare Spending on Pricey Bandages

Young Americans Can’t Keep Funding Boomers and Beyond

U.S. Makes Initial Offers in Medicare Drug Price Negotiations