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Biogen s new Alzheimer s drug may substantially raise premium costs for millions of Medicare patients and inflate costs for the government program itself, experts say.The drug, called Aduhelm and administered by infusion, will cost $56,000 for a year of treatment per patient, Biogen announced last week. The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug amid controversyover its expense and efficacy. That raises serious cost concerns for both patients and payers, particularly Medicare, according to
stanley cup a recentanalysis from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.Roughly 6 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer s, according to the Alzheimer s Association. About 2 million with the disease are covered by Medicare, the government health insurance program. Putting a quarter of Medicare recipients on Aduhelm would raises costs by $29 billion a year, more than any other medication, Kaiser found. It is not hyperbole to
stanley cup say that this new Alzheimer s drug could be a real budget-buster for Medicare, Juliette Cubanski, deputy director for the Kaiser Family Foundation s program on Medicare policy and co-author of the report, said in atweet. FDA approves controversial Alzheimer s drug 02:18
stanley cup But, Cubanski added, because the drug is covered under Medicare Part B, the port Fies France s Emmanuel Macron to talk to Biden amid grave crisis over submarine deal with Australia
New York, N.Y. --A man accused of slashing at least two New York City women in January is facing charges in Manhattan and the Bronx, and another man was arrested this week for cutting a woman on a city subway platform in Brooklyn.According to CBS New York, Ras Alula Nagarit, 37, was charged Thursday with felony assault, attempted assault, menacing and possession of a weapon.Police said Nagarit, due in court Friday, turned himself in and admitted that he walked up to a 29-year-old woman on a southbound No. 3 train in Brooklyn Tuesday night and cut her. He allegedly told her: I will chop you up on this train, according to the station. Investigators said Nagarit then slashed the woman with a cloth-covered machete, leav
asics ing a two-inch gash on her hand. Kari Bazemore was also indicted
adidas og in the Bronx this week, after he first struck a woman on Nov. 4, at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan, according to complaints filed in criminal court. Bazemore allegedly hit a woman in the face with
af1 a hard object and when she turned around, her attacker was standing there smiling while holding a plastic bag with something inside. He then allegedly slashed a woman in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx on New Year s Day.Nicole Pagliaro was walking near East 134th Street on first evening of 2o16 when Bazemore allegedly slashed her across her face with a sharp object, requiring multiple stitches. A closed Facebook page post describing the incident