Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$911,922.00

Award Date

9/24/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

A controversial component of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D) enacted in 2006 is the doughnut hole, a gap in coverage for pharmacy expenditures between $2,250 and $5,100. We recently reported that one in four seniors entered the doughnut ho