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.

Katelon Smith, APRN, FNP

Katelon Smith is a Family Nurse Practitioner who practices at CareSouth Carolina’s Hartsville office. She attended Francis Marion University where she received her Master of Science in Nursing.

Specialty:

Family Medicine

Education:

University of South Carolina, Bachelors of Science in Biological Sciences

Francis Marion University, Bachelors of Science in Nursing

Francis Marion University, Masters of Science in Nursing

Certifications:

Advanced Practice Register Nurse (APRN)

American Heart Association BLS and ACLS

Professional Experience:

CareSouth Carolina – Primary Patient Care, Hartsville SC

McLeod Regional Medical Center, Critical Care Associates, Florence, SC

McLeod Dillon Emergency Room, Dillon, SC

Affiliations:

American Nurses Association (ANA)

South Carolina Nurses Association (SCNA)

Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honors Society (STTI)

What’s the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan?

Katelon Smith, APRN, FNP

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