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More Resources: Links
Links to
Web sites and organizations with helpful information and resources about
Medicare prescription drug coverage:
Other Useful Tools
- Application
for Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs
- Coverage Determination Request Form - This is a form
your doctor can use when sending information to your plan to make sure the
plan has all the information it needs to consider your prior authorization
request.
- Formulary Finder for Prescription Drug Plans - This
online tool from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services helps users to find plans in their
state that match their drug needs.
- Get Educated, Get Enrolled A Workbook for Mental Health
Consumers [PDF] - This workbook from the National Mental Health
Association helps consumers to work through their medication needs before
they start comparing plans. It explains the benefit in broad
terms and also creates a space for people to track their interactions
with Medicare prescription drug plans. While the workbook is directed
toward mental health consumers, it is a useful tool for anyone who
has multiple medication needs.
- Guide to Medicare
Part D Prescription Coverage for People with Developmental Disabilities
- This Web site is intended to help individuals who receive Medicaid and
Medicare benefits, known as dual eligibles, their families and caregivers,
and advocates for people with disabilities nationwide understand Medicare
prescription drug coverage.
- Medicare Personal Plan Finder - This online tool from
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services allows you to answer a few short questions and then view
and print a personalized chart comparing Medicare health plans where you
live.
- Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder - Everyone with
Medicare needs to make a decision about prescription drug coverage. Even
if you don't use a lot of prescription drugs now, you should still
consider joining a plan. The Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder will
help you to learn about the new Medicare prescription drug coverage, find
and compare prescription drug plans that meet your personal needs, and
enroll in the prescription drug plan that you select.
- Mental Health
Part D - This site, created by a partnership between the American
Association of Community Psychiatrists, the American Association for
Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, the National
Alliance on Mental Illness, the National Association of State Mental
Health Program Directors, the National Council for Community Behavioral
Healthcare, the National Mental Health Association, and Treatment
Effectiveness Now, is designed to help those with mental illnesses and
their families and caregivers understand how the new Medicare prescription
drug coverage will affect them, and what they can do to ensure people with
Medicare receive the appropriate medications.
- Request for Prescription Information or Change - This
is a form your pharmacist can use when sending information to your doctor
to make sure he/she has all the information he/she needs to request prior
authorization from your plan.
- RxCompare -
This step-by-step guide, offered by MedicareRx Connect, provides
worksheets to compare cost details and other decision factors about
Medicare drug coverage options. It also includes guidance on making a
final decision and enrolling. It is designed to be used by Medicare
beneficiaries themselves or anyone who is assisting a beneficiary in the
process of choosing a Medicare prescription drug plan.
- Your
Medicine: Play It Safe - This resource from the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality and the National Council on Patient Information and
Education answers common questions about getting and taking medicines and
has many handy forms that will help you keep track of information.
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