title: Medicare prescription drug discount cards.
abstract: With the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 came the creation of a Part D drug benefit through Medicare. Until that benefit is implemented, Medicare has established a drug discount card program to help your clients save money on their outpatient prescription drug expenses. In this brief, we discuss the Medicare-approved discount cards--who is eligible, how they work, how your clients can best make important decisions about them, and what help is out there for people with low incomes.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Future of Aging Services, USA.
authors.forename: Natasha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bryant
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D017047:Cost Sharing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006801:Humans; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011203:Poverty; D014481:United States