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Abstract
A stand-alone drug plan offered by insurers and other private companies to beneficiaries that receive their Medicare Part A and/or B benefits through the Original Medicare Plan. It includes Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans that do not offer prescription drug coverage and Medicare Cost Plans offering Medicare prescription drug coverage. The plan was enacted as the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 with coverage beginning January 1, 2006.
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- Part D, Medicare
- PL 108-173
- PL 108 173
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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2008
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- Medicare (2000-2007)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Medicare Part D. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054524. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054524
- Medicare Part D. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D
- Medicare Part D. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6806635