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To: TideGlider who wrote (319392)8/12/2009 3:02:43 PM
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RFP CONTRACT DESCRIBED.—
21 The RFP contract described in this section
22 is a contract entered into between the Sec23
retary and a sponsor of a prescription drug
24 plan pursuant to the Centers for Medicare
25 & Medicaid Services’ request for proposals

1 issued on February 17, 2009, relating to
2 Medicare part D retroactive coverage for
3 certain low income beneficiaries, or a simi4
lar subsequent request for proposals.
5 SEC. 1205. INTELLIGENT ASSIGNMENT IN ENROLLMENT.
6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1860D–1(b)(1)(C) of the
7 Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w–101(b)(1)(C)) is
8 amended by adding after ‘‘PDP region’’ the following: ‘‘or
9 through use of an intelligent assignment process that is
10 designed to maximize the access of such individual to nec11
essary prescription drugs while minimizing costs to such
12 individual and to the program under this part to the great13
est extent possible. In the case the Secretary enrolls such
14 individuals through use of an intelligent assignment proc15
ess, such process shall take into account the extent to
16 which prescription drugs necessary for the individual are
17 covered in the case of a PDP sponsor of a prescription
18 drug plan that uses a formulary, the use of prior author19
ization or other restrictions on access to coverage of such
20 prescription drugs by such a sponsor, and the overall qual21
ity of a prescription drug plan as measured by quality rat22
ings established by the Secretary.’’
23 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
24 subsection (a) shall take effect for contract years begin25
ning with 2012.
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