MEDICARE MODERNIZATION ACT: SPAPs Can Still Coordinate Aid With Medicare Benefit
But the SPAP must be 'qualified' to be kosher.Those unanswered questions on the Medicare Modernization Act just keep coming and coming. Here are a couple of new themes that have emerged over the past week:Qualified, non-qualified? What's a SPAP to do? Come January, all Medicare recipients, including those who also receive Medicaid assistance, will be eligible for Medicare's new Part D drug coverage. But over the past several years, as many elderly and disabled people struggled to pay for their medications, states have established state pharmacy assistance programs to provide such assistance. Under the new Part D, SPAPs...
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