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Tuesday, November 26th. I'm J.R. Waylon for The Wall Street Journal.

Seniors enrolled in Medicare health plans could be on the hook for potentially thousands

of dollars in additional out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs.

If there's 2,000 different prescription drug plans, there might be 2,000 different prices.

And they might range from the lowest price costing Medicare maybe $50, $60.

And it could go all the way up where the most expensive price is maybe $8,000, $10,000.

We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter Jared Hopkins.

After the break.

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Medicare often pays vastly different prices for the same drug, even for people insured under the same plan.

Wall Street Journal reporter Jared Hopkins joins me.

Jared, take us through the process of how a drug gets from the manufacturer to Medicare to the consumer.

Medicare is the largest purchaser of drugs. It's obviously a government program,

primarily for people 65 and older in the U.S., as well as a few other subsets of patients.

Within Medicare, there is something called Medicare Part D, which covers prescription drugs.

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