New Medicare and Medicaid Data Released: Featuring Up-To-Date Enrollment Trends, State Initiatives, Regional Market ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS), publisher of industry-leading newsletters Health Plan Week, Medicare Advantage News and Drug Benefit News is pleased to announce publication of Managed Medicare and Medicaid Factbook: 2008. With close to 9 million Medicare enrollees and almost 30 million Medicaid recipients enrolled in managed care plans, its critical for health plans and other ...

Avalere Health Data Finds Four-Tier System Growing Among Medicare Part D Plans (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Avalere Health today reminded consumers to pay close attention to all aspects of their Medicare prescription drug plan, including on which "tier" or group their medications are covered.

Universal health care a long shot in Illinois (The State Journal-Register)
Part of Gov. Rod Blagojevich s health-care expansion plan may be in limbo because of a legal challenge, but a fellow Democrat s own proposal for a statewide universal health-insurance system passed an Illinois House committee last week and is headed for public hearings.

Medicare Part D drug plan administered by private health insurers (Billings Gazette)
HELENA - Signed into law in December 2003, Medicare Part D was part of a sweeping, multibillion-dollar bill that brought the biggest changes to Medicare since the program was created in 1965.