Expenses tear hole in Coventry bottom line (Market Watch)
A healthy bump in Medicare enrollment and growth in its other units couldn t keep Coventry Health from reporting a 65% first-quarter profit drop due to rising expenses.

Steamboat Briefs: Local Boy Scouts looking for used cowboy boots (The Steamboat Pilot & Today)
A local Boy Scouts troop is seeking used cowboy boots for upcoming events. If you have some old boots you d like to donate, call John Mertz at 870-8993.

When drug plans don't communicate, insured can be left in the lurch (Miami Herald)
Q. My mother, 89 and a Medicare recipient, applied in December to change her insurance provider to AARP, and elected to receive her Medicare Part D prescription drugs through AdvantraRx. The new plans were to take effect on Jan. 1, 2009.

Medicare Rights Center Gets Cover For NY Woman's Cancer Treatment - Victory Marks Implementation Of Evidence-Based ... (Medical News Today)
More than two years after it first filed an appeal, the Medicare Rights Center has secured coverage under the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit for a New York woman's ovarian cancer treatment. As a result, Judith M.