Mercy Health Plans Announces New Name for Their Medicare Advantage Plans: Mercy Medicare Advantage (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Mercy Health Plans, the St. Louis-based health benefits management company founded in 1994 by the Sisters of Mercy Health System, has announced it has changed the name of its Medicare Advantage plans to: Mercy MedicareAdvantage.

Editorial: Congressional Delegations Respond To Medicare Part D Concerns (KAUZ Wichita Falls)
KAUZ General Manager Mike DeLier is unhappy with the response. Or lack there of from Texas and Oklahoma congressmen. That's the topic of his weekly editorial.

Medicare Part D a boon for drug companies, House report says (Los Angeles Times)
Taxpayers pay up to 30% more for prescriptions under the privately administered program than under Medicaid, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform finds. U.S. drug manufacturers are reaping a windfall from taxpayers because Medicare's privately administered prescription drug benefit program pays more than other government programs for the same medicines, a House committee ...