Q1Medicare.com Launches Enhanced Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Formulary Browser
Saint Augustine, Florida (PRWEB) August 31, 2011
Q1Medicare.com launched their enhanced Medicare prescription drug plan Formulary Browser providing users with easy access to all Medicare prescription drug plan formularies used by Medicare Advantage that offer prescription drug coverage (or MAPDs), stand-alone Medicare Part D plans (or PDPs), and even Medicare Special Needs Plans (or SNPs). The enhanced Q1Medicare.com Formulary Browser also now offers members of the Medicare community four different ways to find their desired formulary depending on the user’s needs and expertise.
Medicare beneficiaries who are looking for a specific stand-alone Medicare Part D plan formulary or Medicare Advantage plan formulary, can simply select their state, the name of their Medicare Part D plan carrier, and then the name of the specific Medicare plan. Although Medicare Advantage plans are organized on a county-by-county basis, Medicare beneficiaries are still given the opportunity to search state-wide for Medicare Advantage plans offered by a specific Medicare plan carrier and all available Medicare Advantage plans are shown sorted by county name.
If someone wants a more specific geographic formulary search, the Formulary Browser user can also find their Medicare Advantage plans or Medicare Part D plan formulary by ZIP Code by selecting the “ZIP & Plan” search. Since Medicare Part D plans are offered on a state-wide basis, any ZIP Codes will show all the stand-alone Medicare Part D plans offered by a particular Medicare plan provider across that entire state. However, since Medicare Advantage plan are county-specific, users may need to select their resident county when their ZIP Codes includes more than one county.
The Formulary Browser also has several searches designed for medical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare professionals who have access to Medicare plan information that is not specific to a geographical area or when they are assisting geographically dispersed Medicare beneficiaries. Professionals or technically savvy seniors can search by the Medicare plan Contract ID and Plan ID to find a specific Medicare plan’s formulary by selecting the “PlanID” search. Alternatively, healthcare professionals can search the Formulary Browser by entering just the eight-digit Formulary ID by selecting the “FormularyID” search. Both the Contract ID/Plan ID and the Formulary ID search results will return the geographical service area for the plan in question along with the Medicare plan’s formulary details and the actual plan features.
Once a formulary is found, the user can then browse through the formulary alphabetically. The Formulary Browser provides results in a chart with the medications listed along with prescription strengths, drug tier and tier description, preferred pharmacy and mail-order cost-sharing or co-payment amounts, and details on drug usage management. The site user is also shown detailed information about the specific Medicare plan including the plan’s monthly premium, deductible and if the plan qualifies for the full Low-Income Subsidy $ 0 monthly premium.
“We enhanced our Formulary Browser based on the feedback we received from our Q1Medicare.com users who wanted different ways for finding a specific Medicare plan’s formulary,” notes Dr. Susan Johnson, Technical Director of the Q1Medicare.com site and co-founder of Q1Group LLC. “We also found that, as our site has grown, people were asking that we begin to integrate our different online tools so now our Formulary Browser is linked to the Medicare plan’s health and drug benefit details, our plain text description of the plan, and even the Medicare plan’s contact information.”
The Formulary Browser is available at no cost and designed for computer, smartphone and tablet platforms. The results of the enhanced Formulary Browser are also formatted to be printed for offline use. Users can find the Q1Medicare.com Formulary Browser directly at: Q1Medicare.com/FormularyBrowser.
About the Q1Medicare.com Website
Q1Medicare.com is one of the largest independent online resources for Medicare Part D prescription drug plan and Medicare Advantage plan information. Q1Medicare offers a large section of Frequently Asked Questions, online tools, and a free Medicare Part D Newsletter all designed to help Medicare beneficiaries, healthcare professionals, advocates, advisers, and insurance agents better understand both the Medicare Part D prescription drug and Medicare Advantage programs. Q1Medicare.com is operated by Q1Group LLC (Saint Augustine, Florida).
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