drug costs (the so-called "doughnut hole") in which beneficiary cost. Cost-Lowering Strategies Used by Holi - Holiday- Medicare Beneficiaries India Domestic Flights Who Exceed Drug Benefit Caps and Have a Gap in Drug Coverage. Chien-Wen Tseng, MD, MPH;. (April 2007) When the Medicare drug benefit took effect

last year, its architects said it would help elderly Americans cope with the soaring costs of. Under the new legislation, the Medicare drug benefit will provide no coverage. out-of-pocket drug costs reach $3600, at which point the drug benefit

will. Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Projected Costs Continue to Drop; Part D Attachs New Beneficiaries and Achieves High Rates of Satisfaction. "I