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Congress Can — but Probably Won’t — Pull Plug on Part D Stabilization Demo

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    Feb 13, 2025

    If the new Congress agrees with some Republican lawmakers’ view that the Medicare Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration is a “taxpayer-funded bailout” for health insurers, it can either defund the program or limit CMS’s authority to create such demonstrations in the first place, pointed out a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS).  

    However, one health policy expert says that any action regarding the controversial demonstration is more likely to come from CMS than from Congress. 

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    • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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