Pennsylvania's APPRISE Program Honored for Medicare Part D Education Efforts (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Pennsylvania's APPRISE Medicare and insurance counseling service has received the U.S. Social Security Administration's Public Service Award for its outstanding work to educate Pennsylvanians about the new Medicare prescription drug benefit known as Medicare Part D.

Part D hurts small, rural pharmacies (UPI)
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- The controversial Medicare prescription drug benefit plan might be hurting small, independent rural pharmacies, forcing some of them out of business.

Medicare keeps rates for most Part B drugs steady (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Medicare reimbursement rates for cancer, transplant and other drugs that must be given in a doctor's office will remain stable in the third quarter of 2006, officials for the federal insurance program said on Wednesday.

5.7 Million People Now Receive Prescription Drug Coverage Through UnitedHealth Group's Medicare Part D Drug Plans (RedNova)
Approximately 1 out of Every 3 Medicare Benefic