Medicare mails drug cards to Iowa seniors
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DES MOINES, Iowa A mass mailing is under way nationwide to get Medicare-approved drug discount cards to low-income seniors. Officials say they targeted because they fall into an income bracket that makes them
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Texas seniors could save an average $1,584 in prescription drug costs using the Medicare drug discount card program, according to a recent study.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News)  -- The three-year-old Medicare Part D drug program is seeing the number of its enrollees climb, even as costs for the program fall, U.S. health officials announced Thursday.
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Thousands of Massachusetts senior citizens with Medicare drug benefits have received automated phone calls from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in recent days asking them to repay up to $1,400 because Medicare failed to automatically deduct monthly premiums from their Social Security checks.
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The Medicare prescription drug benefit enacted in December has not provided the political boost among seniors that the White House expected, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Medicare will be mailing out 1.8 million drug discount cards to low-income Americans who are eligible but have not yet applied. The cards will allow low-income earners to qualify for an additional $1,200 in
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A U.S. group advising Medicare on its new prescription drug benefit released a proposal on Thursday that could determine how likely the latest medicines are to be covered for the elderly.
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Washington -- Medicare&#39;s toll-free telephone line, one of the federal government&#39;s main methods of disseminating information about new prescription drug benefits and drug discount cards, gives accurate answers less than two-thirds of the time
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Medicare said yesterday it intends to pay for counseling for some of the nation&#39;s 4 million older smokers. Medicare beneficiaries who smoke and have smoking
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The new medicare prescription drug cards are failing to provide significant discounts for seniors in his two-borough district, Rep. Joseph Crowley said yesterday.
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The Illinois Foundation for Health Care helps the flow of services funded by Medicare, the federal health-care program for seniors, to beneficiaries in Illinois.
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They&#39;re not exactly giving away toasters to new members, but Medicare HMOs in South Florida are offering lots of new goodies to get senior citizens to join up.
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Nearly 2 million low-income Medicare participants could be switched to different insurance plans for their prescription drug coverage next year
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Medicare&#39;s toll-free telephone line, one of the main vehicles for disseminating information about new prescription drug benefits and drug discount cards, gives accurate
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WASHINGTON -- Medicare said Thursday it would pay for counseling to help some of the nation&#39;s 4 million older smokers kick the habit.
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Many elderly and disabled Americans participating in the Medicare drug benefit next year will have more plans to choose from as the number of companies offering coverage nationwide jumps to 17.
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WASHINGTON - A day before the first presidential debate, the government's health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount cards championed by President Bush were confusing or inadequate.   "We found that these beneficiaries received very little mail from drug card sponsors that would enable them to make an informed choice among cards," the Health and Human Services Department inspector general wrote in the Sept...