Patients don't understand Medicare coverage gap
Patient Access Weekly Advisor, November 19, 2008
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Revenue cycle managers must continue to prepare their staff members to help confused patients with the Medicare Part D coverage gap.
More than 60% of patients who took a Medco Health Solutions survey do not fully understand the gap that forces patients to pay the entire cost of their prescription drugs, the Associated Press reports. And nearly 30% do not understand it at all, the survey says.
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