CAGW Denounces Efforts To Scuttle Medicare Provider Audits, USA (Medical News Today)
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) reiterated support for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) efforts to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in improper medical payments made to hospitals and healthcare providers using the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program.

Medicare Helps Push Drug Spending Up (Washington Post)
Spending on prescription drugs rose briskly in 2006 as the Medicare drug benefit kicked in and the government's share of expenditures for medicines surged, according to a federal study to be released today. Overall, health-care spending in the United States continued its climb, rising 6.7 percent...

Wellpoint Looking Well (Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance)
WLP is well-positioned to benefit from Medicare initiatives such as the introduction of Part D.

Seniors happy with Part D (Wahpeton News)
In November, the drug program Medicare Part D held an open enrollment that allowed them to change their current plan to another one.