Onondaga County receives national recognition for Medicare (News 10 Now)
Onondaga County receives special national recognition. The National Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services congratulated the county for its efforts getting the information out on Part D, the new Medicare Prescription Drug Program.

Medicare rebuffs GOP calls for faster Part D pharmacy payments (The Hill)
The Bush administration has rejected calls by Republican lawmakers to intercede on behalf of small pharmacies engaged in a payment dispute with Medicare s new prescription-drug plans.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Contradicts Itself on Delayed Medicare D Payments to Pharmacies by PBMs (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CMS, the agency that manages Medicare, is sending mixed messages on its intent to resolve pharmacy benefit managers' slow Medicare D payments to independent pharmacies. The Association of Community Pharmacists Congressional Network was perplexed to learn that after refusing to intervene in the matter, CMS senior advisor Larry Kocot asserted the agency has "basically remedied every complaint,

Software helps employers receive Medicare subsidy. (ThomasNet)
CARDS(SM) (compliance, audit, reconciliation, and data storage) system offers consulting-based and administrative solution designed to help employers that retained their retiree prescription drug programs under Medicare Part D to receive Retiree Drug Subsidy (RDS) from Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It is supported by electronic rules engine that performs claims analysis and