Medicare Copay ‘Smoothing’ Plan Shows Nothing Is Simple In Part D
Executive Summary
Guidance on how to implement a new policy to permit Part D beneficiaries to pay high copays in monthly installments (rather than all at once at the pharmacy counter) shows that there is no such thing as a straight-forward change in the drug benefit program.
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