tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 24

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Help Your Patients Sign Up For Do-It-Yourself Drug Coverage

The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a demo program June 24 that plans to enroll 50,000 seriously ill beneficiaries for at-home medication coverage. According to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, the Medicare Replacement Drug Demonstration, which was allotted $500 million for pharmaceutical spending under the reform bill, will target beneficiaries without prescription drug coverage. The plan will extend Medicare coverage of medicines patients can take at home. Covered drugs include treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and pulmonary hypertension. In addition, 40 percent of the funding will cover oral anti-cancer medications. Beneficiary cost sharing for these drugs...

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