Zdrowie i gospodarka · 14.09.2004
Medicare Program; September 30, 2004 Open Door Forum: Requirements for Coordination Between Plans Primary or Secondary to Medicare Part D Under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA)
This notice announces a September 30, 2004 Open Door Forum for the purpose of discussing the establishment of requirements of benefit coordination among Medicare Part D plans, State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs (SPAPs), States, pharmaceutical benefit managers, employers, data processing experts, pharmacists, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other interested and affected parties (or customers and partners). This Forum will enable interested parties to comment and raise issues regarding requirements for enrollment file-sharing, claims processing, claims reconciliation reports, application of the catastrophic out-of-pocket protection under Section 1860D-2(b)(4) and other administrative procedures under the provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (Pub. L. 108-173). Interested parties will also have the opportunity to ask questions and raise issues regarding the potential paperwork burden that these MMA provisions may impose. The MMA requires that these requirements be established before July 1, 2005.