AmeriHealth New Jersey is offering new lower-cost SEH drug options for all of its PPO, POS, POS Plus, HMO and HMO Plus business plans.

Newark, Del., has started a program to help its residents with the high cost of prescription drugs by distributing free discount cards.

Aetna’s marketing and enrollment of new Medicare customers will come to a halt April 21, after the discovery of compliance issues by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Medicare Advantage plan enrollment fell 2.8% in January, compared to the prior month, leading one analyst to call the preliminary results for the 2010 open-enrollment period “troublesome.”