- Title
- Overview: Medicare and Prevention
- First Author
- Lapin, P.
- Date of Pub
- 2006 Spring
- Pages
- 1-4
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Other Authors
- N/A
- Abstract
- With the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has become a more prevention-oriented agency. This law provided coverage for new primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive benefits, including an initial preventive physical examination
- Abstract Continued
- for Medicare beneficiaries newly enrolled in Part B, diabetes and cardiovascular disease screening tests, prescription drugs, and the Medicare Health Support Program to help chronically ill people manage their conditions.
- MeSH
- N/A
- NTIS Number
- N/A
