National Health Policy Forum

The Basics

Date: JANUARY 24, 2011
Title:
The Medicare Drug Benefit (Part D) PDF Doc.
Author: Mary Ellen Stahlman
Summary: The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) established a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries that began January 1, 2006. This publication provides an overview of the drug benefit.
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See also "Medicare" (The Basics, January 24, 2011).