Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Resources
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Medicare
Medicare See the Medicare and You 2008 Handbook, the Formulary Finder, and many more tools for understanding the new drug benefit.
Medicare Drug Insurance and You - Colorado Options 2008 (PDF) This site presents details of the benefit, the plans available in Colorado and their websites, and pricing of many of the drugs that are covered and worksheets to compare copays on different plans.
Basic Introductions
YourPharmacyBenefit.org This site was created to help people make good use of the pharmacy benefits that became available under Medicare in 2006.
American Academy of Family Physicians’ Understanding the New Medicare Prescription Drug Plan. See also their list of additional resources on Medicare D.
AARP’s Guide to the new Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Benefit
National Alliance for Hispanic Health This provides general information and several links. Scroll down for Spanish.
10 Things You Need to Know About Medicare’s new Prescription Drug Benefit, and how to pick the plan for you. Available in Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
For Assistance
The Senior Health Insurance Assistance Program, within the Colorado Division of Insurance, helps people enrolled in Medicare with questions about health insurance. Topics addressed by the program include Medicare, Medicare supplement insurance (Medigap), Medicare HMOs, Medicaid assistance for people on Medicare, and long-term care insurance. See here the links on the left hand side: esp: re: Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
Additional assistance for those with limited income
SSA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are working together to provide persons with limited income and resources extra help paying for their prescription drugs. Click here to see if you qualify, or to apply for assistance. Instruction sheets are available in 15 different languages (in PDF) to help you understand the English application. Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese.
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Updated: May 22, 2008
