Grant to help Medicare beneficiaries apply for benefits (The Springfield News-Leader)
Nearly $430,608 of new funding is being distributed to the Missouri State Health Insurance Assistance Program and the State Agency on Aging, Area Agencies on Aging to help the most vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries in Missouri apply for Medicare...

HHS Releases $30 Million to Help Medicare Beneficiaries Access Their Benefits (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON----HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released $25 million in grants to help older people, individuals with disabilities and their caregivers apply for special assistance through Medicare, and an additional $5 million for a national resource center to support these important efforts.

Impact of Medicare Part D on access to and cost sharing for specialty biologic medications for beneficiaries with ... (News-Medical-Net)
Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) such as adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab are effective at reducing symptoms and slowing progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These drugs act more quickly, require less laboratory monitoring, and are better tolerated than nonbiologic DMARDs, but they are also up to 100 times more expensive.