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Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage

Program Information

Popular name

(Medicare Part D)

Program Number

93.770

Program objective

To provide prescription drugs to Medicare beneficiaries through their voluntary participation in prescription drug plans, with an additional subsidy provided to lower-income beneficiaries.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Regulations governing this program are authorized under Part D of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act and are available at 42 CFR 423.

  1. Authorized under Part D of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Health

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled)
  • Individual/Family
  • Low Income
  • Mentally Disabled
  • Minority group
  • Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease)

Additional resources