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Archive for March, 2006

Part D Cuts into Pharmacy Profits

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

There have been a number of articles lately about the negative effects Medicare Part D has had on the retail end of the Pharmacy business. Here is one from USCF Today

Each day, the nation’s pharmacies dispense more than 8 million prescriptions. In return, pharmacies are reimbursed by patient health plans. What used to be […]

Youths at AmeriCorps Help Seniors with Part D

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Mona Skinner, 79, needed help weeding through the insurance plans for her Medicare Part D enrollment forms, so she turned to the experts: two twentysomethings serving in the AmeriCorps service organization.
“I’ve been procrastinating,” said Skinner, a retired homemaker from Junction City. “There’s too many plans. … I just didn’t know which way to jump.”
After […]