AJMC April 14, 2021
Compared with when Medicare Part D launched, therapies today are more expensive. A panel at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 2021 meeting discussed how the benefit needs to adapt to keep up with the future.
Sixteen years in, how is Medicare Part D performing and what does its future look like?
A keynote discussion at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 2021 meeting looked at the past and future of the program, created by the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, including some of the challenges it faces in a landscape of higher-cost therapies that did not exist when the benefit rolled out.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 46 million of the more than 60 million people covered by Medicare...