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21. Medicare Beneficiaries' Access to Pharmacy Services in Small Rural Towns: Implications of Contracting Patterns of Sole Community Pharmacies with Part D Plans - Resources
Date: Jan 2009

Describes pharmacy Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) contract patterns of sole rural pharmacies. Addresses PDP enrollment choices of Medicare Part D enrollees.

...Medicare Part D enrollees. --- Medicare Beneficiaries' Access to Pharmacy Services in Small Rural Towns: Implications...

22. Differences in Part D Plans Offered to Rural and Urban Medicare Beneficiaries - Resources
Date: Jul 2015

Analyzes how Medicare Part D plan options differ for rural and urban residents in terms of premiums, deductibles, and copayments, as well as differences in plan options within more-densely and less-densely populated rural areas. Includes statistical breakdowns by three location types, number of available plans, average premiums, deductible amounts, and average co-pays.

...Part D Plans Offered to Rural and Urban Medicare Beneficiaries --- Analyzes how Medicare Part D...

23. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Issues in a Modernized Medicare Program, 2005 - Resources
Date: Jun 2005

Examines issues affecting the Medicare program. Addresses Part D, Medicare's new outpatient prescription drug benefit, with some coverage of rural issues. Includes overview of the Medicare Advantage program. Discusses the effects of the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) provisions in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA).

...Medicare program. Addresses Part D, Medicare's new outpatient prescription drug benefit, with some coverage...

24. January 2024 MedPAC Meeting Transcript - Resources
Date: Jan 2024

Transcript from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) January 2024 meeting. Covers payment adequacy and updates for physician and other health professional services, hospital inpatient and outpatient services, outpatient dialysis services, hospice services, skilled nursing facility services, home health agency services, and inpatient rehabilitation facility services. Discusses status reports on ambulatory surgical centers, Medicare Part D, and the Medicare Advantage program, as well as policy options for standardized benefits in Medicare Advantage plans. Includes rural references and considerations throughout.

...Medicare Part D, and the Medicare Advantage program, as well as policy options for standardized...

25. Rural Beneficiary Access to Medicare Advantage-Part D Plans - Resources
Date: Aug 2025

Policy brief updating RUPRI's analysis of Medicare Advantage-Part D plans (MA-PDs) including enhanced benefit plan availability and differences in characteristics across metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore areas. Features statistics including number of MA-PDs and stand-alone prescription drug plans (PDPs), average monthly premium costs, and availability in metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore areas from 2008-2023.

...Medicare Advantage-Part D Plans --- Policy brief updating RUPRI's analysis of Medicare Advantage-Part...

26. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2016 - Resources
Date: Mar 2016

Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Discussions of rural aspects of Medicare payment policies are included throughout the report. Focuses on payment adequacy, Medicare Advantage, and Medicare Part D.

...Medicare Part D. --- MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2016 Annual review of Medicare...

27. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2025 - Resources
Date: Mar 2025

Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Includes discussion on Medicare payment policies directly affecting rural providers and beneficiaries. Addresses payment adequacy for Medicare fee-for-service payment systems, Medicare Advantage (MA), and Medicare Part D.

...Medicare Part D. --- MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2025 Annual review of Medicare...

28. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2023 - Resources
Date: Mar 2023

Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Includes discussion on Medicare payment policies directly affecting rural providers and beneficiaries. Addresses payment adequacy for healthcare facilities and services; Medicare Advantage (MA), including a mandated report comparing per enrollee spending in the MA program with that of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare; and Medicare Part D.

...Medicare Part D. --- MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2023 Annual review of Medicare...

29. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2023 - Resources
Date: Jun 2023

Evaluates Medicare payment issues and provides recommendations to the U.S. Congress. Chapter 7 presents a report on the use, payment, and quality of telehealth services that Medicare pays for separately under the physician fee schedule (PFS). Also includes chapters on the cost of drugs covered under Medicare Part B, postsale rebates for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D, standardized benefits in Medicare Advantage plans, future directions for Medicare Advantage payment policy, disparities in outcomes for beneficiaries with different social risks, Medicare behavioral health services, the alignment of fee-for-service payment rates across ambulatory settings, and the evaluation of a post-acute care prospective payment system prototype.

...Medicare Part D, standardized benefits in Medicare Advantage plans, future directions for Medicare Advantage payment...

30. Medicare-Paid Naloxone: Trends in Non-Metropolitan and Metropolitan Areas Metropolitan Areas - Resources
Date: May 2021

Policy brief examining Medicare-paid naloxone dispensing, comparing rates in nonmetro and metro areas nationwide. Provides year-by-year data by payer type for 2013-2018, including insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare Part D. Compares numbers of Medicare-paid naloxone prescriptions year-to-year for retail pharmacies, comparing rate changes for rural and metro areas.

...Medicare Part D. Compares numbers of Medicare-paid naloxone prescriptions year-to-year for retail...