Medicare's cap on out-of-pocket costs helps cancer patients and others taking expensive drugs. With less financial burden, patients can better afford their medications.

The Biden administration said Medicare will negotiate discounts with drug companies on 15 drugs prescribed to treat cancer, ...

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. WASHINGTON — The Trump ...

Medicare enacted 10 negotiated drug prices for some of the nation’s costliest prescription medications Jan. 1. However, years before the new prices launched, pharmaceutical companies widely altered ...

Five Senate Democrat leaders have jointly signed a letter to Vice President Joe Biden, petitioning him to leave a proposed Republican Medicare plan off the table amid discussions on how to tackle the ...

The Trump administration said that had the new prices been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved $12 billion, which would have reduced its spending on those drugs by 44 percent. By Rebecca ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As a former health care administrator, I'm deeply concerned about an impending consequence brought on by ...

The rise in Medicare premiums and deductibles will be offset by a cap on drug prices. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, ...