# Medicare Program; Medicare Part D Claims Data
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2008-05-28 · Effective 2008-06-27 · 73 FR 30664
## Document
- **Document number:** 08-1298
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 30664
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 423
- **Publication date:** 2008-05-28
- **Effective date:** 2008-06-27
- **HHS docket:** CMS-4119-F
## Abstract

This final rule allows the Secretary to collect claims data that are presently being collected for Part D payment purposes for other research, analysis, reporting, and public health functions. The Secretary needs to use these data because other publicly available data are not, in and of themselves, sufficient for the studies and operations that the Secretary needs to undertake as part of the Department of Health and Human Service's obligation to oversee the Medicare program, protect the public's health, and respond to Congressional mandates. These data will also be used to better identify, evaluate and measure the effects of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, (MMA).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/05/28/08-1298/medicare-program-medicare-part-d-claims-data)
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