Medicare Part D’s Most Popular Plans Face Final Hurdle

WASHINGTON (Feb. 18, 2015)—The year-long saga over controversial Medicare Part D regulations is expected to end this week when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issues the Part D Call Letter for 2016. After an initial uproar over a proposed regulation that threatened preferred pharmacy plans for millions of Medicare beneficiaries, CMS excluded such “controversial” provisions from its 2016 Final Part C & D Rule. With this week’s Part D Call Letter, CMS can finally close the book on a year in which millions of seniors feared their plans would be eliminated.