Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Medicaid and Medicare

New GAO Report Finds Widespread Problems With Information Provided By Bush Administration About New Medicare Drug Benefit

Rep. Waxman, along with Reps. Dingell, Rangel, Stark, and Sherrod Brown, releases a GAO report that finds that the information provided by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the complicated new drug benefit is rife with problems. According to GAO, the federal handbooks, website, and 1-800 Medicare hotline failed to provide information that was “consistently clear, complete, accurate, and usable.”