Medicare Part D - Issues

Medicare Part D continues to be a controversy rather than the shot in the arm that it is supposed to be. It continues to be amazing that this is such a complicated area and yet Seniors are supposed to be able to make sense of all of it.

Mr. Joe Paduda's weblog has recent updates on the fall out from the poorly planned administration of Medicare Part D, including the fact that "pharmacies are not able to access eligibility information in government databases through the normal EDI links, requiring the pharmacists to call Medicare where they spend hours on hold. Meanwhile, patients are't getting their drugs." http://www.joepaduda.com/archives/000381.html.

Government agencies are notorious for little or no cooperation with one another. The problem is when individuals have to deal with these inefficiencies and especially when this lack of cooperation and/or expertise impacts one's critical components for living as healthy as possible.