# Medicare Program; Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Benefit Programs: Negotiated Pricing and Remaining Revisions; Prescription Drug Benefit Program: Payments to Sponsors of Retiree Prescription Drug Plans
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2012-01-12 · Effective 2012-03-12 · 77 FR 1877
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-473
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 1877
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 423
- **Publication date:** 2012-01-12
- **Effective date:** 2012-03-12
- **HHS docket:** CMS-4131-F2
## Abstract

This final rule implements and finalizes provisions regarding the reporting of gross covered retiree plan-related prescription drug costs (gross retiree costs) and retained rebates by Retiree Drug Subsidy (RDS) sponsors; and the scope of our waiver authority under the Social Security Act (the Act).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/01/12/2012-473/medicare-program-medicare-advantage-and-prescription-drug-benefit-programs-negotiated-pricing-and)
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