CMS Renews Critical
Beneficiary Protections for 2007, Drug Plans Must Continue
to Offer Broad Coverage of Medications to Treat Mental Illness
March 9, 2006
Last week the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS), the federal agency responsible for Medicare, issued
guidelines that renew protections that require drug plans
to offer broad coverage of psychotropic medications and cover
all prescriptions of new plan enrollees. These protections
are currently in place and will be renewed through 2008. For
additional information please click
here.
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