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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Medicare and Medicaid Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines GAO Testimony: Overview of Approaches to Control Prescription Drug Spending in Federal Programs Obama To Formally Announce Medicare Drug Costs Cuts Today [Guidance Overview] CMS Update on Mandatory Insurer Reporting User Guide and Other Guidance Savings Needed for Health Expenses in Retirement: An Examination of Persons Ages 55 and 65 in 2009 (PDF) Medicare Beneficiaries' Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care Services Medicare Secondary Payer User Guide Updated With Guidance for Responsible Reporting Entities and Group Health Plans How The White House Hopes to Control Health Care Costs CMS Announces 2010 Indexed Medicare Rx Amounts A Summary of the 2009 Annual Reports from the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees Recession Drains Social Security and Medicare 2009 Medicare Trustees Report How Do Medicare and Employer Coverage Compare in Meeting Enrollees' Needs? Annual Checkup for Social Security and Medicare [Guidance Overview] Requiring Older, Medicare-Eligible Retirees to Pay Larger Portion of Premium Contribution Under Health Plan Did Not Violate ADEA [Guidance Overview] July 1, 2009 Implementation for New Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting Medicare Poised to Take Bigger Chunk of Social Security Checks Next Year [Guidance Overview] The Imminent New Mandatory Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting Rules (PDF) 8 Tips on Paying for Health Care in Retirement [Guidance Overview] CMS's Medicare Part D Benefit Parameters for 2010 [Guidance Overview] New Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting Obligations for Workers' Compensation Plans [Guidance Overview] 2010 Medicare Part D Benefit Parameters (PDF) [Guidance Overview] CMS Revision of Indexed Medicare Part D Amounts for 2010, Updated April 8, 2009 [Guidance Overview] New Laws And Drafting Tips for Welfare Plans In 2009 CMS Issues Retiree Drug Subsidy User Guide and New FAQs [Guidance Overview] CMS Update of Creditable Coverage Disclosure to CMS Form House Takes Up a Plan Tied to Health Care Overhaul [Guidance Overview] Medicare Part D: Optimizing the Opportunities for Employer Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Preparing for and Understanding the New Medicare Reporting Requirements [Guidance Overview] New Medicare Reporting Requirements (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Indexed Medicare Part D Amounts for 2010 How Effectively Does the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Help Laid-Off Workers and States Cope with Health Care Costs? [Guidance Overview] CMS Updates Mandatory Insurer Reporting Requirements and User Guide [Opinion] Medicare Part D Is an Example of Bad Policy [Opinion] Principles for a New Retirement System in the USA (PDF) U.S. Births Break Baby Boom Record [Guidance Overview] CMS Delay of MSP Mandatory Reporting for HRAs and Provision of Other Guidance for Group Health Plans [Guidance Overview] Part D Plans Have Only One Month to Comply With E-Prescribing Rules [Guidance Overview] Recent Legislation Requires Numerous Changes to Group Health Plans [Guidance Overview] CHIPRA: How it Affects Your Group Health Plan [Guidance Overview] New Federal SCHIP Law Requires Amendments to Employers' Health and Cafeteria Plans [Opinion] We Need Health Care Reform, Not an Entitlements Commission The Stimulus Bill's Effect on the Health Care Industry (PDF) [Guidance Overview] CHIP Reauthorization Act Expansion of Special Enrollment Rights and Creation of New Notice and Disclosure Obligations for Group Health Plans [Guidance Overview] CHIP Reauthorization Requires Fast Action by Group Health Plans, Including Multiemployer Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Health Plan Insurer Could Not Terminate COBRA Coverage When Qualified Beneficiary Became Covered Under Medicaid Ideas that Could Save NYC Money Include Health Insurance Cuts Senate Finance Committee Side-by-Side Chart Comparing Tax Provisions of House and Senate Stimulus Measures (PDF) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Summary of Health and Income Support Provisions in Conference Agreement (PDF) Congress Reaches Deal on Stimulus Plan [Guidance Overview] New Law Establishing Additional Special Enrollment Rights, Notice, and Disclosure Obligations for Group Health Plans Finding Health Insurance When You Lose Your Job (PDF) [Guidance Overview] CMS Requests Comments on Proposed Changes to RDS Subsidy Calculation [Guidance Overview] Your Medicare Part D Disclosure to CMS May Be Due Soon An Analysis of Health Care Spending by Medicare Households (PDF) Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study The Effects of the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap on Drug Spending The Effect of Medicare Part D Coverage on Drug Use and Cost Sharing Among Seniors Without Prior Drug Benefits Boston Globe Examines Debate Over Cost Effectiveness of Mail-Order Pharmacies Insurers Overcharged Medicare for Prescriptions, Report Finds House Stimulus Bill Widens Healthcare Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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