More Part D mistakes courtesy CMS
The MInneapolis Star-Tribune reports today:
The [Medicare Part D] program is passing out bad information on penalties for late enrollment in the drug plan…millions of older Americans who miss the May 15 enrollment deadline forthe new drug benefit will pay a higher penalty than they’re being toldabout by federally financed counselors.
And the counselors knowit, but say they can’t give out correct information because they arerequired to offer only information approved by Medicare, and Medicaregot it wrong — and still has it wrong on its website.
Advocacy groups have also passed on the incorrect formula.
Onesuch group is the Minnesota Senior Federation. “We didn’t need this,”said Janine Stiles of the Senior Federation, which included the mistakein its 2006 Health Care Choices booklet. “People already areoverwhelmed.”