tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 35

Long-Term Care: Choose Nursing Home Drug Providers Carefully

Carelessness could mean trouble when it comes to Part D plan selection.Long-term care facilities that fail to deal with the advent of Medicare Part D could cause residents to suffer gaps in prescription drug coverage, insiders say.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "is being very aggressive in getting the program up and running," comments Chuck Sheets, an attorney in Foley & Lardner's new long-term care group in Chicago.With the initial enrollment period set to commence Oct. 15, providers should be drafting their to-do lists now, recommends Betsy Anderson with FR&R Health care Consulting...

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