Bush Administration: “Plans Must Provide A 30 Day Supply”
Over the weekend the Bush Administration directed all health plans contracted under Medicare to “provide a 30-day supply of any drug a beneficiary was previously taking after tens of thousands of people were unable to get medicines promised by Medicare, the New York Times reported on Monday.” The directive further stated all plans must take immediate steps to ensure that low-income beneficiaries were not charged more than $2 for a generic drug and $5 for a brand-name drug, according to the Times.
This directive comes after many states have declared public health emergencies, and many states announced that they would step in to pay for prescriptions that should have been covered by Medicare’s new prescription drug program, which started on Jan. 1, the Times said.
Despite all of the challenges with implementing the new drug program the program is covering over 1,000,000 prescriptions a day.
