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 on this site
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 on this site
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 on this site