Although young adults are typically the ones who struggle with the highest rates of addiction substance abuse among medicare beneficiaries has increased noticeably over the past two decades many older individuals continue to struggle with addiction to alcohol and other substances such as prescription drugs which they are likely to be prescribed for various health conditions such as chronic . The letter also concluded that medicare beneficiaries may face a treatment gap in 2013 doctors prescribed a high number of opioid prescription painkillers for this population which put . Coding cy2015 per diem payment rates is intended for hospitals and community mental health centers cmhcs that submit claims to macs for php services provided to medicare beneficiaries in se1512 cms reminds hospitals and cmhcs that provide php services to follow existing claims coding requirements given in the medicare claims processing manual chapter 4 section 260 at http . To examine whether the medicare part d program had an impact on the generic drug prescription rate among residents in long term care facilities we analyzed prescription data for 3 drug classes atypical antipsychotic proton pump inhibitor and statin obtained from a regional online pharmacy serving long term care centers in pennsylvania from january 2004 to december 2007. Hurteau is among the 16 million americans who since then have had access to substance abuse services but a study published monday in the journal health affairs found significant disparities in