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Trends in direct health care costs among US adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with and without diabetes

Cardiovascular Diabetology

The costs were direct total health care expenditures (out-of-pocket payments and payments by private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and other sources) from various sources (office-based visits, hospital outpatient, emergency room, inpatient hospital, pharmacy, home health care, and other medical expenditures).

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How to Get Free or Lower Cost Insulin for Your Medicare and Non-Medicare Patients: Shattering Barriers to Insulin Access

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Part D Insulin Costs The Medicare drug plan can’t charge beneficiaries more than $35 for a one-month supply of each Part D-covered insulin, and they don’t have to pay a deductible. If Medicare beneficiaries receive a 3-month supply of insulin, their costs cannot exceed $105 ($35 for each month’s supply).