Medicare Part D Healthy for Enrollees

Description Researchers found that Part D in 2006 made statistically significant improvements in the health, access to medications, and financial hardships of previously uninsured beneficiaries. Newswise — Medicare beneficiaries' activities of daily living (ADL) improved in their first year of the Medicare Part D senior prescription drug plan, according to a ground-breaking study presented at the Annual AcademyHealth meetings in Chicago today. In a study of Medicare records, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy researchers found that Part D in 2006 resulted in "small but statistically significant" improvements in the health status of previously uninsured beneficiaries and in their access to medications. Nearly two-thirds of people with no drug coverage in 2005, before the plan, enrolled in Part D in 2006, the most recent... [read full story]                    

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