Finding health insurance coverage before Medicare kicks in can be overwhelming. Here are the best options for solid, ...

Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say.

URBANA – For Dorothy Berger, the gap in her new Medicare drug plan arrived way too fast. Less than five months after her new Medicare prescription drug coverage took effect Jan. 1, she went to her ...

The December 7 Medicare open enrollment deadline has passed, but you may not be stuck. Learn about Special Enrollment Periods ...

If you're a Medicare beneficiary who's looking for a drug plan that will cover brand-name prescriptions in the so-called doughnut hole - a financial gap built into the benefit - you're out of luck.

LITTLE ROCK — The law that’s overhauling the U.S. health system will in a decade’s time phase out what is for many a dreaded time of year - the period when Medicare Part D enrollees fall into the ...

Providing generic drug coverage instead of no drug coverage during the Medicare Part D coverage gap saves money and improves health outcomes in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a new ...

Entering the Medicare Part D coverage gap does not result in a large reduction in medication adherence for essential drugs. We used a 5% random sample of elderly Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in ...

Medicare beneficiaries will not be allowed to buy insurance to cover their share of prescription drug costs under the new Medicare bill to be signed Monday by President Bush, the legislation says.

When diabetic patients in 2 Medicare Advantage Part D plans reached the 2006 coverage gap, overall drug costs dropped as out-of-pocket costs increased. In 2006, 26% of the 42,801 beneficiaries with ...