Increasing Drug Makers' Coverage-Gap Discounts Lowers Premiums

By John Wilkerson / February 15, 2018 at 12:26 PM

Senators tout the budget law for closing the Part D donut hole a year early, but the more significant result for beneficiaries is that it will lower drug premiums, according to Jack Hoadley, a congressional Medicare adviser and policy analyst for Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute.


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