Researchers Urges Simplification Of Part D To Achieve Cost Savings (redOrbit)
In the face of rising health care costs, a new study has found that older adults were less likely to identify the plan that minimized their total annual cost and were likely to mistakenly think they had chosen the lowest-cost plan.

Will Cost of Arthritis Drugs Soon Be More than Medicare, Senior Citizens Can Afford? (Senior Journal)
June 2, 2009 Certain drugs that are effective at reducing symptoms and slowing progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a common condition for senior citizens, are so expensive they are putting pressure on Medicare Part D plans and beneficiaries.

Options exist for Medicare doughnut hole (Centre Daily Times)
Q: Help! I have gotten into the doughnut hole with my Medicare Part D Prescription

Impact of Medicare Part D on access to and cost sharing for specialty biologic medications for beneficiaries with ... (News-Medical-Net)
Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) such as adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab are effective at reducing symptoms and slowing progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These drugs act more quickly, require less laboratory monitoring, and are better tolerated than nonbiologic DMARDs, but they are also up to 100 times more expensive.