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WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of the aid intended for the poorest of Medicare's participants — tens of millions of dollars — probably never made it to them during the first year of the new Medicare drug benefit.
Some so-called dual-eligibles — seniors and disabled people whose incomes are so low that they also qualify for Medicaid — were never told that they could seek reimbursement for some drug-related expenses, federal investigators say in a report to be released Tuesday.
The Bush administration took extra precautions to help the group. It said that the government should cover the cost of medicine for dual-eligibles retroactively — back to the first day of the month when the beneficiary became eligible for Medicaid.
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