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About our 2008 prescription drug packages

Click on the following link to go to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina website. Please remember that PARTNERS Medicare Choice and PARTNERS Medicare Options are now named Blue Medicare HMO and Blue Medicare PPO for 2008 benefits.

2008 Benefits

About our 2007 prescription drug packages

PARTNERS offers two Medicare prescription drug packages. All PARTNERS Medicare plans (except for our medical only plan) include one of these types of coverage:

• Standard package
  Medicare has designed a "standard benefit" drug package. Companies may offer additional enhanced coverage, but they must offer a standard prescription benefit package that is at least equal in value to Medicare»s standard benefit. This package covers a limited range of generic, brand name and specialty drugs and has a $265 deductible.
• Enhanced package
  PARTNERS has developed this package to offer more comprehensive prescription drug coverage than the Standard package. It has no deductible and covers the same generic, brand name and specialty prescription drugs as the Standard package. It also includes covered generic prescription drugs in the coverage gap.

Note: PARTNERS Medicare prescription drug coverage is only available to members of a PARTNERS Medicare plan that includes prescription drug benefits. We do not offer a stand-alone Medicare prescription drug plan. If you are already enrolled in another Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug plan, you may not enroll in a PARTNERS plan at the same time.

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