Sierra to Incur Loss on Enhanced Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Product Offering (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAS VEGAS----Sierra Health Services, Inc. today announced that it expects to incur a loss in its 2007 fiscal year from the enhanced version of its Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program product offering.

Katherine Leith: Make Medicare plan decisions carefully (The Herald-Sun)
"I thought I knew what I was getting. But I didn't." Unfortunately, I've heard this too often from people who'd enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan. Most of them didn't realize that they no longer had Medicare.

New BIO Survey Counters Claims Regarding Single Source Therapies in Medicare Part D (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON----The Biotechnology Industry Organization today released a study which found that Medicare Part D plans offer significant discounts on single-source therapies and provide greater access to many single-source innovative therapies not available through the Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacy benefit or mail-order pharmacies such as Costco.com and drugstore.com.

Shire Extends FOSRENOL(R) | at Hand Program to Cover Medicare Part D Enrollees (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
With new reports showing almost half of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in prescription drug plans in 2006 were impacted by the Medicare Part D coverage gap known as the "donut hole," Shire is pleased to announce the launch of a new Medicare Part D component under the FOSRENOL | at hand program.