The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Part D by proposing the most sweeping changes to the Medicare drug benefit since it launched. Proposed revisions to the “Protected Classes” will get the most attention, but the rest of the rule may have more profound impacts going forward.
The Part D program is all grown up.
That, at least, is how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sees it. In a proposed rule
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