Part D enrollment: Facilitating informed decision making

Abstract

Some current Medicare beneficiaries and all new Medicare beneficiaries need to
decide whether to participate in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
To determine which beneficiaries might need assistance and what information
would be most helpful to them, we examined the distribution of beneficiaries’
previous sources of prescription drug coverage and their satisfaction with that
coverage before Medicare Part D was implemented. The purpose of this article is
to consider how the new Medicare Part D benefit has changed the relative options
for beneficiaries with and without prior prescription drug coverage, and how
communication with Part D beneficiaries might be enhanced. (Drug Benefit
Trends. 2007;19:149-163)