The Medicare negotiation patient listening sessions are being held this week; many of the patients are talking about affordability challenges and the need to switch medicines/treatments because of cost. Some of the patients said they are looking forward to the negotiation so they can have lower cost sharing. To me, this demonstrates the need to…

Recently my treadmill became a paperweight. The technician came out and said that it would be better to buy the parts and fix it because the new ones were just not made as well as my old one. A refrain I’ve heard over the years as it relates to heating units, refrigerators, etc. But Part…

This time of year brings on a sense of nostalgia for me related to the Medicare prescription drug benefit (Part D). Back in 2005, I had just started working at Avalere and we got our first data on what plans were offering for the inaugural year of the benefit. I remember launching into the file…