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- Our Lady of Consolation’s Medical Services Department will be taking appointments for individual consultations regarding the new Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit to help beneficiaries compare current medication and insurance costs with the new plans in order to choose the most beneficial and cost effective means of prescription coverage.
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- Some people in Southern West Virginia are lobbying to regulate online pharmacies in the state.
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- With the high cost of prescription drugs, more consumers are turning to the Internet to cut expenses. But what you order on the Web isn't always what you get.
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- Concerned for the well-being of Northeast Ohio's seniors and others who rely on Medicare for their health care coverage, several organizations have banded together to kick off an intensive, two-week campaign to promote awareness of and enrollment in Medicare Part D -- a new, voluntary prescription drug program available to all Medicare recipients.
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- I've spent the better part of a week learning about the new Medicare Part D prescription drug program and helping my mom choose a plan. I knew it would be complex, but it was even worse than I expected.
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- You can save money but you need to be careful or you could be hurting your health.
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- The Hollywood hunk, known for his work-hard-play-harder attitude, is being treated for a dependency to prescription medication, publicist Danica Smith said Monday.
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- For thousands of senior citizens currently using a state prescription drug assistance program called Senior Care, enrollment in a new Medicare prescription drug assistance program just became more difficult.
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- WINNIPEG — Any breathing room the fall of the federal government afforded Canada’s Internet pharmacy industry could slowly evaporate in early 2006 because of a new U.S. drug benefit that will compete for many of the same patients.
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- I've spent the better part of a week learning about the new Medicare Part D prescription drug program and helping my mom choose a plan. I knew it would be complex, but it was even worse than I expected. I've written about a lot of bewildering...
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Tracking medicare prescription drug plans
Spending on prescription drugs in America has increased faster than any other category of health care expenditure, and Americans pay more for their prescription drugs than anyone else in the world.
In January 2006, Medicare beneficiaries can begin receiving prescription drug coverage. Consumers Union has advice on whether to sign up for the coverage, shopping for plans, fraud information and what you can do to urge Congress to make the drug benefit more effective. Beginning Nov. 15, Medicare beneficiaries can begin signing up for a prescription drug plan. But it’s a confusing decision with many different types of plans, deductibles and coverage.
A new site at consumersunion.org, allows seniors to share their experience in obtaining Medicare Part D coverage.
The site offers information about the new benefit, which begins in January 2006, and is Medicare's single largest change in history. Many of Medicare's 40+ million beneficiaries will now have to compare their current Rx coverage with the new plans in order to identify which will be best for them.
The site also features an online survey and consumers can leave comments describing their experience during the six-month enrollment period, which starts Nov. 15. Some beneficiaries without coverage should act fast, wheras others might want to wait for the site to work out any bugs before making a decision.
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