Medicare Prescription Drug Premiums to Rise in '09 (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)
The average monthly premium for Medicare's prescription drug plan will increase to an estimated $28 in 2009, three dollars more than this year's monthly premium.

NaviMedix Partners with POC Network Technologies to Enable More Than 600,000 Providers to Submit Medicare Part D ... (Centre Daily Times)
NaviMedix, the leading innovator in automating healthcare provider communications, broadens its portfolio by offering POC Network Technologies' (PNT) Medicare Part D services via the NaviNet(R) Network. Over 600,000 providers nationwide can now submit Medicare Part D vaccine claims online via NaviNet. PNT is leveraging NaviNet as a distribution channel for its eDispense(R) Vaccine Manager(TM) ...

NaviMedix Partners with POC Network Technologies to Enable More Than 600,000 Providers to Submit Medicare Part D ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----NaviMedix, the leading innovator in automating healthcare provider communications, broadens its portfolio by offering POC Network Technologies Medicare Part D services via the NaviNet Network.

Kucinich Introduces Legislation That Seeks To Lower Prescription Drug Costs By Replacing Medicare Part D (Medical News Today)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) recently introduced a bill (HR 6800) that would replace the Medicare prescription drug benefit with a new program in an effort to reduce costs, CQ HealthBeat reports.