title: Complying with federal guidelines: Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003: amendments to Social Security Act.
abstract: The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 is the most comprehensive health legislation since the initiation of Medicare. It has many other ramifications in addition to establishing a prescription drug payment. This review outlines the prescription drug benefit and attempts to extract the topics important to practicing physicians from the other eleven titles. We will be seeing the effects of this act for years to come.
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos Medical Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA.
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Honsinger
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007357:Insurance, Physician Services; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States; D019131:United States Social Security Administration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration