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As the new year begins, folks with Medicare who have currently joined a Medicare drug plan can take advantage of the new Medicare prescription drug coverage. Because this is a new program for Medicare, you may well have concerns about how to use your Medicare drug program. For instance, what if you joined a strategy but haven't received a strategy ID card in the mail yet? Or, what if your drugs were covered by Medicaid and you happen to be not sure how to get your medicines now? Whatever queries you have, Medicare has answers.

Initial Pharmacy Trip

Here are some guidelines folks with Medicare can use to make confident their very first trip to the pharmacy goes smoothly:

- When you first join a Medicare drug program, you'll get an acknowledgement letter in the mail about a week immediately after you join. Your program ID card really should arrive three to 5 weeks later.

- If you need to have to go to the pharmacy before your ID card arrives, bring the acknowledgement letter from your strategy, your Medicare and/or Medicaid card, and a photo ID.

- Save the receipts from your pharmacist.

- For extra assistance, call 1-800-MEDICARE, 24 hours a day, seven days a wheelchairs week.

People with Medicare and Medicaid

If your pharmacist is getting difficulty confirming what program you are in or regardless of whether you also get Medicaid, he can also call a special toll-free of charge number that Medicare set up for pharmacists to get support. Folks with Medicare who also get Medicaid should be able to get their prescriptions filled with minimal copayments and no deductibles.

How to Join a Strategy

If you have not joined a Medicare drug program but, do not worry. You have till Might 15, 2006 to decide on and join a program without having getting to spend a penalty