Part D Plans Would Need To Cover COVID-19 Drugs Without Cost Sharing Under House Bill
Executive Summary
US House leadership's COVID-19 aid package focuses on cost sharing relief for patients to ensure access to treatments and vaccines for the virus. The Senate's legislative proposal tried to provide Medicare reimbursement incentives to providers to facilitate uptake, but some of those provisions were later dropped.
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