Medicare Part D is your prescription drug coverage. If you have Medicare, you’re eligible to enroll in Medicare Part D. In 2018, 43 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in Medicare Part D plans.1
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Medicare drug benefit is especially important to those with modest incomes or very high drug costs, as the benefit helps to reduce out-of-pocket drug spending for enrollees.1
What does Medicare Part D cover?
There are different Medicare drug plans, and each has its own list of covered drugs, called a formulary. Typically, a drug plan will place drugs into different tiers on their formularies. Drugs in each tier have a different cost. In general, a drug in a lower tier will cost you less than a drug in a higher tier.
Some of the factors that determine your actual drug plan costs include:
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The drugs you use
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The plan you choose
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Whether you go to a pharmacy in your plan’s network
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Whether the drugs you use are on your plan’s formulary
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1Kaiser Family Foundation, An Overview of Medicare, https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicare/, February 13, 2019.
