The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003: summary analysis and preliminary assessment of implications for radiology.

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003: implications for the future of health care.

Historical Perspective on Adding Drugs to Medicare

This article describes the lengthy background and debate leading up to the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). Full implementation of the prescription drug aspect of the law will not be completed for some time, and final assessment of its impact awaits a history yet to be written. Instead, this article summarizes the efforts of supporters ...

Rural Payment Provisions in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003

Diagnosis-Based Risk Adjustment for Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Payments

The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) created Medicare Part D, a voluntary prescription drug benefit program. The benefit is a government subsidized prescription drug benefit within Medicare. This article focuses on the development of the prescription drug risk-adjustment model used to adjust payments to reflect the health status of plan enrollees.

The National Medicare Prescription Drug Congress

With a deadline of June 1, 2004, looming for the beginning of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) Discount Card program, a consortium of more than 30 organizations cosponsored the National Medicare Prescription Drug Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, from February 25–27, 2004. The main objective was to assess the various areas of health care that will be affected by the new Medic...