What are Medicare Part D Covered Drugs?

A Part D covered drug is available only by prescription, approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and used and sold in the United States. These medications are listed on the plan’s formulary.

Medicare covered Part D drugs include:

• Prescription drugs
• Biological products
• Insulin as defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Certain vaccines
• Medical supplies associated with the injection of insulin (syringes, needles, alcohol swabs, and gauze)

What are Medicare Part B Covered Drugs?

Medicare Part B covered drugs include a limited number of prescription drugs such as those you get in a hospital outpatient department under certain circumstances, injected drugs you get in a doctor's office, certain oral cancer drugs, and drugs used with some types of Durable Medical Equipment (like a nebulizer or infusion pump). Medicare Part B drugs include, but are not limited to, the following types of drugs.

• Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Supply Drugs such as: nebulizers, external or implantable pumps
• Hemophilia clotting factors: Self-administered clotting factors if you have hemophilia
• Immunosuppressive Drugs: Immunosuppressive drug therapy a beneficiary receives after a Medicare-covered organ transplant
• Oral Anti-Cancer and Anti-Nausea Drugs
• Pneumococcal and Hepatitis B vaccines and administration

For additional information on Medicare Part B covered drugs, refer to your Evidence of Coverage.