Download or read book Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Cards written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Discount Drug Card written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Drug Discount Card written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Discounts Public Subsidies written by Joseph R. Antos and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study documents the need for better consumer information, particularly on special discounts offered by pharmaceutical companies that can provide very generous savings to many low-income beneficiaries. The failure to make that information transparent and easy to access must be overcome if this program is to live up to its full potential."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Medicare drug discount card hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means U S House of Representatives One Hundred Eighth Congress second session April 1 2004 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Medicare Drug Discount Card written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Drug Card written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare endorsed Prescription Drug Discount Card written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program written by CCH Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Policy and Drug Prices written by Emin Dinlersoz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2004, the U.S. Government initiated the Medicare Discount Drug Card Program, which created a market for drug cards that allowed their subscribers to obtain discounts on their prescription drug purchases. Pharmacy-level prices for several drugs were posted on the program website weekly from May 29, 2004 to December 31, 2005, as the largest undertaking in the history of government-sponsored information release aimed at promoting competition by facilitating access to prices. A large sample of pharmacy-level drug price data collected from the Medicare website for several weeks indicate that the program generated significant dispersion in prices across drug cards that persisted over time. Moreover, the time-path of prices was non-monotonic: the prices declined initially and rose later as the program matured. In contrast, contemporaneous control prices unrelated to the program that were collected from on-line drug retailers rose steadily over time, indicating that the program prices evolved in a way different from the general evolution of prices outside the program. In view of the institutional aspects of the program which prevented consumers from changing their card choices at will, the evolution of prices can be reconciled with models of dynamic price competition with consumer switching costs as in Klemperer (1987a,b). The estimates of savings under the program are also provided.
Download or read book The Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program written by Andy Schneider (J.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Cards written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare prescription drug discount cards: immediate savings for seniors: hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, May 20, 2004.
Download or read book Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage for Dummies written by Patricia Barry and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage For Dummies offers strategies to cut through the confusions of Part D, either for yourself or for someone you're helping. It explains the programs ins and outs in plain words. It shows you how to avoid or cope with pitfalls and suggests how you can lower your costs or find a better deal. Best of all, it convinces you that you can - yes, you can - handle Medicare Part D!
Download or read book Medicare Endorsed Prescription Drug Discount Card Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 8, 2003, the President signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA, P.L. 108-173). This legislation provides for the implementation of a Medicare prescription drug program, effective January 1, 2006. In the interim, MMA requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a temporary program to endorse prescription drug discount card programs meeting certain requirements. The purpose is to provide access to prescription drug discounts to persons who voluntarily enroll with a private card plan. Each card sponsor is to provide each enrollee with access to negotiated prices. The program will also provide up to $600 in transitional assistance in both 2004 and 2005 for low-income persons enrolled in endorsed card programs. All Medicare beneficiaries, except those receiving Medicaid drug coverage, are eligible to enroll in a discount card program. Card enrollees with incomes below 135% of poverty are eligible for transitional assistance provided they do not have drug coverage under a group health plan. Not all persons eligible to enroll will actually enroll in the card program. Many persons who currently have access to discount prices through other sources will likely elect not to enroll in the temporary program. An individual can be enrolled in only one card program at a time. Sponsors may charge a uniform annual enrollment fee, not to exceed $30; the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, the agency administering Medicare) will pay the fee for those receiving transitional assistance. A card sponsor must be a nongovernmental single legal entity doing business in the U.S. A Medicare Advantage (MA)organization (i.e., a Medicare managed care plan) may apply to become an exclusive card sponsor by limiting enrollment to persons enrolled in its managed care plan; certain requirements otherwise applicable to card programs are waived for this group. At a minimum, card programs are required to offer a negotiated price for at least one drug in each of the 209 therapeutic categories identified by CMS on a list of medications frequently used by Medicare beneficiaries. The sponsor must contract with a sufficient number of pharmacies (other than mail-order) in its service area to ensure that access requirements are met. Several issues have been raised since the program began operating June 1, 2004. All beneficiaries not enrolled in an MA plan have a choice of at least 34 national plans; in all but nine states, beneficiaries may also select from additional regional cards. CMS has placed on its website comparative information, by zip code, on plans available in the area and plan prices for drugs specified by a senior. Many observers have stated that beneficiaries are faced with too many confusing choices. While over 4 million persons have enrolled in the program, there is concern that many persons eligible for the $600 subsidy have not yet enrolled; special education efforts are being targeted toward this population group. Some observers have also suggested that discounts may not be that much when compared with other discounts available to seniors. Two recent studies suggest that these programs do provide savings when compared with retail prices and some other discount programs. This report will be updated as events warrant.
Download or read book Medicare Endorsed Prescription Drug Discount Card Program written by Jennifer O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare: Sponsors' Management of the Prescription Drug Discount Card and Transitional Assistance Benefit
Download or read book Medicare Prescription Drug Cards and Association Health Plans written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
