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You may want to visit the following links for additional information. Please contact us at info@kidneydrugcoverage.org if you have others that might be helpful.

  Searchable databases

• Patient Log for Medicare Part D (Excel)
• Patient Drug Coverage History Form (Excel)

   Applications

• Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs from Social Security Administration offers tips (in 15 languages) for filling out the application for the Medicare Part D low-income subsidy (also called “extra help”) and the application form http://www.ssa.gov/prescriptionhelp/

  Fact Sheets, Articles and Tools

• Extra Financial Aid with the New Medicare Drug Benefit from the American Association of Kidney Patients’ Washington Reporthttp://aakp.org/AAKP/RenalifeArt/2005/washington0705.htm


• BenefitsCheckUpRx has a screening tool to help you see if you’re eligible for many state and federal benefits, including the extra help for people with limited income and resources, Medicare Part D, Medicaid, State Pharmacy Assistance Programs, Veterans Health Care Benefits, TRICARE, over 150 pharmaceutical company patient and more coming in October 2005 http://www.benefitscheckup.org


• Fact Sheets/Tip Sheets/Mailings/Other Publications from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicarereform/factsheets.asp


• Medicare Road Show Kit from Families USA includes fact sheets, a video narrated by Walter Cronkite, fact sheets, and tools to explain the new law, including one to help you calculate how much Medicare Part D might help you (Note: the premium amount should be an average of $444, not $420) http://www.familiesusa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Medicare_Road_Show_Kit


• Facts about Medicare Prescription Drug Plan from Medicare is a fact sheet that explains Part D http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/11065.pdf


• Introducing Medicare’s New Coverage for Prescription Drugs from Medicare is a brochure that explains Part D http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/11103.pdf


• Benefits Under the New Medicare Law from the Medicare Rights Center includes fact sheets on Medicare Part D and discount drug cards, questions and answers (English and some Spanish) http://www.medicarerights.org/newlawframeset.html

  Reports

• Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage from AARP includes research reports, news releases, etc. on Medicare Part D http://www.aarp.org/research/medicare/drugs/


• AAKP Letter of October 4, 2004 to Mark McClellan at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services commenting on Part D and needs of kidney patients in any formulary http://www.aakp.org/AAKP/Advocacy/CMS-4068-P-EC.pdf

   Video clips

• Why Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Matters to You from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is a video clip with interviews of people on Medicare, including a dialysis patient http://www.cms.hhs.gov/cable/

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