Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

HHS seeks to expand Medicare coverage

Published in Pharma Law Weekly, November 2nd, 2004

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has announced that Medicare Advantage plans were seeking to expand coverage to 1.6 million additional seniors and persons with disabilities, while also lowering their premium and out-of-pocket covered services costs by an average of 10% and providing more benefits.

According to Thompson, this is evidence that the new Medicare Modernization law is a successful investment in seniors and their access to better healthcare benefits.

Secretary Thompson said that 35 Medicare Advantage plans had made new applications to provide coverage and 22 had applied for expansion of service areas....

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