The actual number of people who received a $250 Medicare Part D Donut Hole rebate checks was listed by the Department of Health and Human Services as: 3,756,677 with a total cost of: $939,169,250.
As noted on the Medicare website:"To date [March 21, 2011], 3.8 million people who had drug expenses that put them in the donut hole in 2010 have received a one-time $250 rebate check. Approximately 2.2 million (58 percent) of the recipients of the rebate check are women. Nearly one-fourth of Medicare beneficiaries receiving assistance (942,000) were either under age 65 and disabled, or age 85 and older. The five states with the largest number of individuals who received a rebate check are: California, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas."
The actual number of Medicare Part D $250 rebate checks were released throughout 2010 in a series of News Releases from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Here are links to the actual releases:According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as of August 30, 2010, around 1 million $250 Medicare Part D Donut Hole rebate checks were issued. Click Here if you wish to read the complete HHS press release: Q1News.com/153
On September 23, 2010, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (in a HHS press release) stated that "[m]ore than 1.2 million beneficiaries who have hit the donut hole so far this year have received their $250 rebate checks as part of the cost savings provisions in the Affordable Care Act, and millions more are on deck to get a check." Click Here if you wish to read the complete HHS press release: Q1News.com/154
On March 22, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that "[t]hrough provisions of the Affordable Care Act, nearly 4 million people with Medicare who reached the program’s Part D coverage gap in 2010 have received a one-time, tax-free $250 rebate check." Click Here if you wish to read the complete HHS press release: Q1News.com/158