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ARLINGTON, Va., April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The
National Council on Aging (NCOA), the national voice for every person s right to age well, is joining hundreds of partners nationwide to celebrate Boost Your Budget Week from April 12-16, 2021. The outreach campaign connects struggling older adults to billions in federal, state, and local benefits to help them age with health and financial security.
Boost Your Budget Week is an outreach campaign from the National Council on Aging to help older adults access billions of dollars that help pay for food, medicine, utilities and more. They can check eligibility at a free and confidential website: BenefitsCheckUp.org or BuscaBeneficios.org
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In Advisory Opinion No. 20-05, posted September 23, 2020, OIG was unwilling to approve a pharmaceutical company s proposed cost-sharing subsidy program for beneficiaries seeking to use its expensive new drug for treatment of a rare cardiovascular disease. While OIG stated it was not in a position to reach a definitive conclusion regarding whether a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) existed, OIG was unwilling to issue a favorable advisory opinion. In particular, OIG was concerned that the arrangement would make beneficiaries less sensitive to the costs of their treatment, thereby risking an increase in the costs to the federal health care programs, and influencing clinical and beneficiary decision-making. Notably, OIG highlighted its use of publicly available information in reaching its conclusion under the AKS. With respect to the beneficiary inducement statute, OIG found the proposed arrangement did not