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An official with the Department of Health and Human Services told HuffPost that the law gives no flexibility on the definition of creditable coverage.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

If Medicare considers your existing coverage to be "creditable" - meaning, coverage that is as good as the standard Medicare prescription drug coverage benefit - you are permitted to keep your current coverage without incurring future penalties.

Illinois IGNN: Main State Page News 2009

I much doubt if he could have passed what would now be called a creditable examination in the Fathers; and as for all the nice formalities in the rubric, he would never have been the man to divide a congregation or puzzle a bishop.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

Apparently the workers of America are not yet ready to sing, although I recall a creditable chorus trained at

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

I much doubt if he could have passed what would now be called a creditable examination in the Fathers; and as for all the nice formalities in the rubric, he would never have been the man to divide a congregation or puzzle a bishop.

My Novel — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I much doubt if he could have passed what would now be called a creditable examination in the Fathers; and as for all the nice formalities in the rubric, he would never have been the man to divide a congregation or puzzle a bishop.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

But in the far more influential New York Times, Bosley Crowther called the picture a fair and "creditable" reenactment and observed that MGM had "taken no obvious sides in the current atomic contentions."

Greg Mitchell: White House Cover-Up: How Harry Truman Edited the First Hollywood Film About the Atomic Bomb 2010

But in the far more influential New York Times, Bosley Crowther called the picture a fair and "creditable" reenactment and observed that MGM had "taken no obvious sides in the current atomic contentions."

Greg Mitchell: White House Cover-Up: How Harry Truman Edited the First Hollywood Film About the Atomic Bomb 2010

But in the far more influential New York Times, Bosley Crowther called the picture a fair and "creditable" reenactment and observed that MGM had "taken no obvious sides in the current atomic contentions."

Greg Mitchell: Hollywood and Hiroshima: When the White House Censored the First Nuclear Film 2009

You wouldn't be penalized for dropping "creditable" coverage later and signing up for Part D, Mr. Precht says.

Most Retirees Must Sign Up for Medicare Part B 2009