Category: Medicare and Medicaid, Pharma, Legislation, Life Sciences

Medicare enrollees to pay less for 64 additional drugs

Some Medicare enrollees will pay less for 64 drugs available through Medicare Part B, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The drugs will have a lowered Part B coinsurance rate from January 1 through March 31 of next year; that’s b…

Ex-pharmacy owner sentenced in $11.5 million Medicare fraud case

Former pharmacy owner Aftab Hussain has been sentenced to two to six years in prison for allegedly stealing more than $11.5 million dollars through a Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted low-income HIV patients who needed life-saving medications, accord…