Employee Benefits Alert: March 31 Deadline for Filing Medicare Part D Creditable Coverage Notices with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
3/31/2006
The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (the "Act") added to Medicare an important new prescription drug benefit, known as "Medicare Part D." Individuals currently eligible to enroll in the new benefit must do so by May 15, 2006. Thereafter, the annual open enrollment period runs from November 15 to December 31 of each year.
Please download this article to learn what a Medicare eligible individual who fails to timely enroll in Medicare Part D when he or she is initially eligible must do.
