Manatt Health Releases Study Showing that Few Medicare Part D Plans Offer Adult Vaccines Without Cost Sharing

Manatt Health released a new study showing that, despite encouragement by CMS for Part D plans to provide vaccines without cost sharing to incentivize the use of these preventive services, under 4% of Medicare Part D enrollees had access to the vaccines examined in this study with no cost sharing, depending on the vaccine, in either Medicare Advantage Part D Prescription Drug Plans (MA-PDPs) or stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) for CY 2017, with little change since 2015.

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Despite encouragement by CMS for Part D plans to provide vaccines without cost sharing to incentivize the use of these preventive services, about 4% or less of Medicare Part D enrollees had access to the vaccines examined in this study with no cost sharing, depending on the vaccine, in either Medicare Advantage Part D Prescription Drug Plans (MA-PDPs) or stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) for CY 2017, with little change since 2015. Read more in this study released by Manatt Health entitled Trends in Medicare Part D Benefit Design and Cost Sharing for Adult Vaccines, 2015–2017.