Finance Committee Staffers Meet With Stakeholders About Medicare Physician Cuts (Medical News Today)
Democratic staffers for the Senate Finance Committee on Monday met with physician specialty groups to discuss a legislative package proposed by committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) that would halt a scheduled 10.6% cut to Medicare physicians' payments and institute a 0.5% increase in the payments for next year, CongressDaily reports.

Wilson Health Information Names MemberHealth's Community CCRx(SM) #1 Medicare Part D Plan for Second Year in a Row (Centre Daily Times)
Wilson Health Information, a leading consumer insight firm, names MemberHealth's Community CCRx(SM), the highest rated Medicare Part D plan in overall member satisfaction, reenrollment and recommendation intentions as well as in twenty four out of twenty nine PBM specific member rated categories compared to all major Part D plans evaluated across the 32 PDP markets in the continental U.S. among ...

Seniors Being Hit Hard by Unexpected 16 Percent Increase for Top Medicare Drug Plans (Senior Journal)
June 5, 2008 Gasoline prices, food prices everything is going up. Senior citizens, however, are being quietly hit by a gigantic surprise in the form of a premium increase in their Medicare prescription drug plan, despite claims by the administration in January that prices were lower for 2008. Instead, average monthly premiums for enrollees in the 10 most popular Medicare prescription drug ...

"Medicare Update: Get Your Questions Answered" (Garden City News)
Winthrop-University Hospital's "Health Update for Seniors" community education series will present a free program, "Medicare Update: Get Your Questions Answered," on Wednesday, June 11, 2008. The program begins with the lecture at 1:15 PM, followed by blood pressure checks at 2:45. It will be held at the Mineola Community Center, 155 Washington Avenue in Mineola.