Figure 2.
Standard Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, 2007. Figure depicts the doughnut hole or out-of-pocket expense incurred by a patient under the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit once the total annual drug costs exceed $2400 and before the costs exceed $5451. This information was reprinted with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The Kaiser Family Foundation, based in Menlo Park, California, is a nonprofit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation and is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries [27].