Walgreens Offers Help Sorting Through Changes to Medicare Part D Plans (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DEERFIELD, Ill.----The six-week open enrollment period for Medicare Part D is under way and seniors are facing the annual task of evaluating prescription plans to nail down their choices for the coming year.

Medicare Part D: Big changes ahead (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTSMOUTH and#8212; Medicare Part D plans will see many changes in premiums, drug coverage, deductibles and co-pays in the next year, and beneficiaries have only until Dec. 31 to make changes to their health and prescription drug coverage plans.

Open Season For Medicare Part D Enrollment (Medical News Today)
From November 15th to the end of December is "open season" for American senior citizens to sign up for another year to benefit from the federal government program known as Medicare Part D designed to help eligible older Americans pay for prescription drugs.

Explaining Medicare Part D prescription coverage and coverage gap (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
_ Under Medicare Part D, elderly and disabled Medicare benficiaries can enroll in a private drug plan that is largely subsidized by the federal government. Before the benefit began in 2006, that drug coverage was available only though private supplemental plans.