What’s the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan?

The Medicare Prescription Payment Plan is a new payment option in the prescription drug law that works with your current drug coverage to help you manage your out-of-pocket costs for drugs covered by your plan by spreading them across the calendar year (January–December).

Starting in 2025, anyone with a Medicare drug plan or Medicare health plan with drug coverage (like a Medicare Advantage Plan with drug coverage) can use this payment option.

All plans offer this payment option, and participation is voluntary.

This payment option might help you manage your monthly expenses, but it doesn’t save you money or lower your drug costs.

Questions: Before signing up, please contact the Hartsville pharmacy staff at 843-339-5530 to speak with someone directly.

August is National Immunization Awareness Month

August is National Immunization Awareness month and CareSouth Carolina wants to remind folks that making sure your immunizations are up-to-date is not just a concern for students returning to school. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), many diseases can be easily prevented by administering vaccines – thus protecting you from unseen viruses. The annual observance in August serves to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages.

You have the power to protect yourself and your family against serious diseases like whooping cough, cancers caused by HPV and pneumonia with vaccines. Take the necessary precautions with a simple call to your provider, and avoid potential harm.

“It is really important that parents make sure their children’s immunizations are up-to-date,” said Sherri Gainey, a Pediatric Nurse at CareSouth Carolina’s Hartsville office. “And with so much focus on Covid vaccinations recently,” Gainey cautions that “parents shouldn’t forget about the HPV shot” for their teens and pre-teens.

What’s the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan?

August is National Immunization Awareness Month

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