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A 68-year-old woman from Lenexa, Kansas, lost her Extra Help coverage because she works two days a week...just to make a little extra money to survive. Without Extra Help, she is forced to pay staggering costs for her prescriptions. But as a survivor of four different types of cancer, medication is her lifeline. Read more Medicare stories.
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More than two years after it first filed an appeal, the Medicare Rights Center has secured coverage under the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit for a New York woman’s ovarian cancer treatment. As a result, Judith M. Layzer will obtain coverage from her Part D plan of Cetrotide, a hormone treatment costing upwards of $35,000 per month, which has been shown effective against ovarian cancer, with minimal toxicity, in a study in the journal Gynecologic Oncology.
With no annual cap on out-of-pocket spending, the Medicare benefit does not provide enough protection against the high costs of treating a serious illness unless it is combined with supplemental insurance. But the cost of supplemental “Medigap” coverage is increasingly out of reach for people on fixed incomes. What is the answer? One idea is Medicare Extra.
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