Medicare Issues including Medicare Part D and Quality of Care

1. CRS Report for Congress – Medicare: Enrollment in Medicare Drug Plans. Jennifer O’Sullivan, Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress. Order Code RL33136. (Updated June 5, 2006).
2. The Medicare Rx Drug Law – Estimates of the Medicare Beneficiaries’ Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending in 2006: Modeling the Impact of the MMA (Executive Summary). Jim Mays and Monica Brenner Actuarial Research Corporation and Tricia Neuman, Juliette Cubanski and Gary Claxon, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Publication # 7201. (November 2004)
3. Medicare Fact Sheet: The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Publication # 7044-03. (May 2006)
4. Toplines – Selected Findings from the Kaiser Health Poll Survey Report: Seniors’ Early Experiences with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit – April 2006. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Publication # 7501. (April 2006).
5. The First Months of the Prescription Drug Benefit – A CMS Update. Peter Bach and Mark McClellan.  The New England Journal of Medicine, 354:22, pp. 2312-2314, (June 1, 2006).
6. Medicare Part D – The Product of a Broken Process. Slaughter. The New England Journal of Medicine, 354:22, pp. 2314-2315, (June 1, 2006).
7. Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries: A Summary of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. Prepared by Health Policy Alternative, Inc. for The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Publication # 6112. (December 10, 2003).