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Patients with a million questions on the new Medicare drug card programs will be presenting at your office any day now--will you be ready?
Starting this month, Medicare beneficiaries, except those with Medicaid drug coverage, will be able to sign up for a Medicare-approved prescription drug discount card. The cards will go into effect in June and can be used until the full prescription drug benefit under Medicare takes effect on Jan. 1, 2006.
"Patients may start to talk more to their doctors about drug costs as these cards become available," said Tricia Neuman, vice president and director for Medicare policy work at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
In fact, Medicare officials are counting on doctors to help get their patients enrolled in the drug discount card program, Dr. Mark McClellan, administrator of the…
Source: HighBeam Research, Questions coming your way: educate seniors about Medicare discount...