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Part D doesn’t place a flat cap on your drug expenses in any one year, but you do get some relief if your costs rise over a certain level during the year. When that happens, catastrophic coverage kicks in, meaning that your drugs cost far less — no more than 5 percent of the full cost — until the end of the calendar year. However, to qualify for catastrophic coverage, you must spend quite a bit out-of-pocket, as I explain in Chapter 2.