Concept information
Preferred term
Medicare Part D
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- PL 108 173
- PL 108-173
Scope note
- A stand-alone drug plan offered by insurers and other private companies to beneficiaries that receive their Medicare Part A and/or B benefits through the Original Medicare Plan. It includes Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans that do not offer prescription drug coverage and Medicare Cost Plans offering Medicare prescription drug coverage. The plan was enacted as the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 with coverage beginning January 1, 2006.
History note
- 2008
In other languages
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Finnish
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054524
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