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Toplines: Seniors' Early Experiences with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit These toplines contain the detailed results from the April 2006 tracking poll on seniors' early experiences with the new Medicare drug benefit. Toplines (.
Chartpack: Seniors' Early Experiences with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit These charts highlight key data from the April 2006 tracking poll on seniors' early experiences with the new Medicare drug benefit. Chartpack (.
The Medicare Modernization Act established a voluntary prescription drug benefit for Medicare’s elderly and disabled beneficiaries provided by private plans that is open to all beneficiaries.
This study of Medicare Part D plans offered in 2006 examines formularies, drug costs and utilization management tools in drug plans offered by 14 national and near-national organizations. Collectively, these organizations account for 1,222 of the 1,429 Part D plans available to Medicare beneficiaries.
An Update on the Clawback: Revised Health Spending Data ChangeState Financial Obligations for the New Medicare Drug Benefit States are obligated to finance part of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit via a monthly "clawback" payment to the federal government.
, details the different types of private plan options available to people on Medicare. These include Medicare Advantage plans (such as Medicare HMOs, PPOs and private fee-for-service plans) and new stand-alone prescription drug plans.
These two issue briefs describe the different types of private plan options available to people on Medicare, identify key characteristics of the organizations offering the new Medicare drug benefit, and analyze how companies are positioning themselves to attract Medicare enrollees.
describes key characteristics of the organizations that offer the new Medicare drug benefit and analyzes how companies are positioning themselves to attract Medicare enrollees.
Tracking Prescription Drug Coverage Under Medicare: Five Ways to Look at the New Enrollment Numbers This new analysis, which assesses Medicare drug benefit enrollment statistics released Feb.
This 50-state survey of Medicaid officials assesses states’ early experience relating to the transition of low-income seniors and people with disabilities enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare (dual eligibles) to the Medicare Part D drug benefit.
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