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Health and Fitness

Senator Kirk Announces Plan to Prevent CMS from Blocking Seniors’ Prescription Access

by Gary Kopycinski on March 14, 2014

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Following receipt of letter co-signed by Kirk, CMS withdraws proposed rule to reduce access to important medications; CMS rule would have reduced prescription access for 948,000 Illinois Medicare recipients