Bush Proposes Linking the Medicare Drug Premium to Beneficiaries? Income (New York Times)
President Bush proposed legislation to increase drug premiums for higher-income Medicare beneficiaries, which he said would generate $3.2 billion over five years.

Medicare Part D costs down, Oregon enrollment up (BizJournals)
A new national survey found that 84 percent of eligible Medicare Part D beneficiaries in Oregon have enrolled in the program for 2008, up 5 percent from the previous year to 358,923 members.

Medco Launches Medicare Part D Initiative to Promote ePrescribing (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
As Congress considers a bill that would tie physicians' Medicare payments to their use of ePrescribing technology, Medco Health Solutions, Inc. today announced the launch of a national initiative to assist physicians of Medicare Part D patients in switching from hand-written to electronically generated prescriptions.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-02-13 13:35 GMT: CVS Caremark/Universal American to end Medicare part D alliance at year-end 2008 (Interactive Investor)
BOSTON (Thomson Financial) - CVS Caremark Corp. and Universal American Corp. Wednesday said their strategic alliance covering the prescription pathway Medicare part D prescription drug plan program will end as of Dec. 31, 2008.