MP29-13 UROLOGISTS LEAD SURGICAL SUBSPECIALISTS IN MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS

The costs of a Medicare prescription drug benefit.

This paper describes a preliminary cost estimate, prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), of President Clinton's 1999 prescription drug benefit proposal. The CBO estimated that the new benefit would increase net Medicare outlays by $136 billion between 2002 and 2009, although these estimates are highly uncertain. Because the proposal included an annual cap on the amount of the benefi...

Medicare beneficiaries' knowledge of Part D prescription drug program benefits and responses to drug costs.

CONTEXT Medicare Part D drug benefits include substantial cost sharing. OBJECTIVE To determine beneficiaries' knowledge of benefits and cost responses. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Telephone interviews were conducted in 2007 in a stratified random sample of community-dwelling Kaiser Permanente-Northern California Medicare Advantage beneficiaries aged 65 years or older, with a gap in co...

Advocating for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Medicare. Part D: Prescription drug coverage.

Assessing the new medicare prescription drug law.

The Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) is the product of a political compromise to attract moderate Republicans and enough Democrats without losing Republican conservatives. The compromise offered more private health plans to beneficiaries while maintaining and improving traditional Medicare's benefits. This compromise did not settle the debate over the legislation, which is a major issue in the ...