Dual Eligible Home and Community-Based Waiver Program Participants and the New Medicare Drug Benefit


 

Publication Date: October 2005

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Keywords: Medicare; Drug Coverage

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This paper offers state and federal policymakers ideas for what to monitor to ensure that home and community based waiver participants who are dual eligibles maintain equal access to prescription drugs as their institutionalized peers as they enroll in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit.