How to Use Medicare in a Sentence

Medicare

noun

• And the fact that now, Medicare is going to be fixing prices for some products.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• For more on Medicare and the age wave: Will Medicare really run out of money in 2031?
  — Eli Joseph, Fortune Well, 5 June 2024
• That's common for people who need help with catheters, wound care, or hospice (the end-of-life service covered by Medicare).
  — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
• And at what price? The potential Medicare market alone is enormous.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 7 Aug. 2024
• The tax could be lifted if a drugmaker chooses to pull its drug from the Medicare program entirely.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• As Medicare grapples with whether or not to cover the drugs for people 65 and older, studies of this population may be key.
  — Madison Muller, Fortune Well, 27 Sep. 2023
• Medicaid can also benefit from price cuts reached through the Medicare process.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• That's because a federal law passed in 2003 prohibits Medicare coverage of any weight-loss drug.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• Gone was the annual cost-of-living adjustment and the health insurance for retirees, many of whom are not old enough to qualify for Medicare.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• RMDs can often keep people in high tax brackets later in life and can also trigger extra costs for Medicare.
  — Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• If that fails, the hospital could lose Medicare funding, Prelogar said.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
• Any institutions that do not comply with such rules could lose Medicare funding.
  — TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
• Five arrested over ‘sham hospices’ alleged to bilk Medicare for over $15 million.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• Mammograms are available at no cost to the patient through most private health insurance plans and Medicare, according to the news release.
  — Mira Cheng, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• For example, Novo Nordisk was granted Medicare coverage after it was approved to be used to reduce the risk of heart attacks.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 6 June 2024
• Under the old system, the average out-of-pocket cost for people on Medicare was about sixty-three dollars a month; today, it is capped at thirty-five dollars.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
• The in-person events double as a mini vendor fair where residents can sign up for Medicare, Medicaid or FoodShare.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• However, some consumers report that the calls can also be about banking, vacation packages, warranties and Medicare cards, the BBB said.
  — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• Over time, this prestige has been reinforced by their higher reimbursement weights in the fee schedule used by Medicare and other payers.
  — Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Matthew Guido, STAT, 22 Apr. 2024
• Not only that, the complaint argues that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lacked the authority to implement the final rule.
  — Tara Bannow, STAT, 24 May 2024
• The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released in March says the program’s trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in about 10 years.
  — Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2023
• Shifting retirees from Medigap to Medicare Advantage would not save the taxpayers $600 million per year.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
• The state hospital received about $18.7 million in Medicare and Medicaid funding during the last two-year budget cycle.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
• The path to fiscal solvency is to increase taxes and to cut spending on defense, Medicare, and Social Security.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• The same drug is also subject to Medicare’s drug price negotiation program.
  — Rachel Cohrs Reprints, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
• Even if the drug were prescribed only to Medicare patients with a clinical diagnosis of obesity, the cost would exceed $135 billion.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
• Both parties together need to pass legislation to protect the Medicare that retirees earned and paid into for benefits.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
• The law applies to any hospital receiving federal funding, such as through Medicare.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2024
• The researchers then compared the number of people who likely should have received an MCI diagnosis to the number of Medicare beneficiaries who did.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 2 Nov. 2023
• But the plan could deplete Social Security and Medicare trust funds sooner, policy experts say.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024