Medicare benefits are already being cut. Telehealth coverage ends April 1.

They also said Medicare would not be touched, but quietly last week eliminated a popular benefit..telehealth visits (phone & video) will no longer be covered effective April 1.

Yep. There is nothing special about them except the profit margin they can impose!

One of my 4 year old patients was just charged $145 for an inhaler that was removed from her PBM’s formulary, and all 3 of those inhalers are “E” for excluded. She can’t use the dry powder, breath-actuated alternatives on the PBM list. Neither can the other millions of kids with #asthma. 4/

Twitter was an effective platform for me, other patients & health care professionals to advocate for care. With the evolution of X, no longer the case.

I'd love to build a health care advocacy network on Bluesky addressing insurance & PBM barriers to care. Follow please if interested. #MedSky

Premium paying patients need consumer protections. Allowing PBMs to take opaque financial considerations (legalized kickbacks) to prefer one product over another = patients are not getting access to the clinically best therapies, nor cheapest, but the ones with highest profit margin for the PBM.