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Medicare Part D - Medicare Part D reform has pharmacists seeing red ink (Courier-Post)


Medicare Part D reform has pharmacists seeing red ink (Courier-Post)
Disorganization among coverage providers wasn't the only thing affected when the federal government's Medicare Part D prescription plan went into effect in January.

Sigma Global Corp. Responds to New Medicare Drug Plan (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PLANO, Texas----July 25, 2006--New Jersey Citizen Action and Americans United recently released that seven million Americans enrolled in the new Medicare drug plan, "Part D," are facing a massive gap in drug benefits that will force them to pay out of pocket for expensive prescriptions.

Industry Insider: Medicare Part D may be behind drug-sales increase (The Star-Ledger)
Sales were unexpectedly sprightly for most of the big pharmaceutical companies in the past quarter, and some analysts wonder whether the new federal prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients is responsible.

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