Medication Transition Rights-Medicare Part D

The National Senior Citizens Law Center (NSCLC) has released a three page paper on 2014 Transition Rights to Medications Under Medicare Part D.  According to the NSCLC paper:

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that sponsors of Medicare Part D prescription drug plans provide beneficiaries with access to transition supplies of needed medications to protect them from disruption and give adequate time to move over to a drug that is on a plan’s formulary, file a formulary exception request or, particularly for Low Income Subsidy (LIS) recipients, enroll in a different plan.

The paper discusses the minimum transition requirements, enrollee rights, protections for residents of long term care facilities, and how a beneficiary’s change in status will bring increased rights.