One option is to join a Prescription Drug Plan (PDP), which covers prescription medication only.
The majority of Part D beneficiaries are in the former category, the Prescription Drug Plan.
There are just six days left for Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in the new prescription drug plan.
It's been three months since senior citizens began signing up for the federal government's ambitious Medicare prescription drug plan.
Individuals who decide to dis enroll also might need a new Medicare prescription drug plan to maintain their prescriptions.
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Confusion over the prescription drug plan is just one of many challenges facing Medicare and the seniors who depend on it.
So when Medicare Part D was introduced last fall, pharmacist Jennifer Phillips changed gears and began counseling patients on the new prescription drug plan.
Republicans hope Roth's temporary, targeted prescription drug plan could help them on the campaign trail, where the issue ranks well atop many voters' priority lists.
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The House earlier this year passed a GOP-backed Medicare prescription drug plan that encourages private insurance companies to provide the benefit with the incentive of government-provided subsidies.
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The new Medicare prescription drug plan may cut retail margins, but Walgreen offsets that by snagging the contract to sell Medicare prescriptions to managed-care giant UnitedHealth Group's plan.
Bradley also called Gore the "Co-opt Kid, " referring to a prescription drug plan for seniors the vice president unveiled yesterday that closely resembles a plan Bradley proposed last year.
By making a prescription drug plan a centerpiece of his domestic policy, Gore virtually ensures there would be enough money to pay for it as long as he is president.
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Senate Democrats, who currently control the chamber, have a very different prescription-drug plan for Medicare.
You must also choose a Part D prescription-drug plan if you want drug coverage under the traditional Medicare Part A and B program.
Mr Ensign's ideas on Social Security and public education look remarkably similar to George W. Bush's, and Mr Bernstein's prescription-drug plan comes straight from the Gore book.
These may gain strength when a prescription-drug benefit plan is finally approved.
On Tuesday, the FDA said its decision was in response to an amended marketing plan from the drug's maker, Teva Pharmaceuticals, to sell Plan B without a prescription to women 15 and older.
The new FDA plan is the latest step in a multi-agency Federal effort to address prescription drug abuse, a major public health problem in the United States.
But Ms. Sebelius said the data submitted on the drug didn't prove it was appropriate for girls to take Plan B without a prescription, and she overruled the agency to block the decision.
Plan B has been controversial since 1999 when it first was approved as a prescription-only drug.
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Allowing 2.5 million young people to stay on their parent's health insurance plan, that was the right thing to do. (Applause.) Cutting prescription drug costs for seniors -- right thing to do.
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