The report: www.medpac.gov/wp-content/u...

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This is because the value of supplemental benefits (the difference between an enhanced plan's cost sharing and what standard cost sharing would have been) now count towards the "true out of pocket cost"

Presumably another reason why bids came in so high.

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According to MedPAC, details of the Part D redesign mean that some enrollees will hit their $2,000 OOP maximum much faster than I realized.

In one example, they show how one could hit the max with just $470 in spending.

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Medical debt will be removed from your credit report The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is removing medical debt from credit reports. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Benedic Ippolito, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, about the mo...

Health care providers are increasingly seeking upfront payments as payment rates from patients decline. I'd guess that new medical debt policies will accelerate those existing trends (if the policy remains in place).

www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...

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I usually feel safe assuming a lawsuit! (But I don’t know…an insurer or PLF type group finds a test case).

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Do you have a guess for whether this is likely to survive a legal challenge, independent of what the next admin does? (Assuming someone sues).

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