• 1 Health Plans: CMS Happy With Local Medicare Plan Applications

• 2 Health Spending: Expect Scrutiny Of Health Prices As Spending Continues Upward

• 3 Long-Term Care: Providers May Have To Swallow Costlier Meds In 2006

• 4 Legislation: States Struggling For Ways To Cover Working Uninsured

• 5 Physicians: Chemotherapy Reimbursement Not Covering $144 Million Cost

• 6 Laboratories: Its Time To Ramp Up Diabetes Screening Tests

• 7 DME: Share Power Mobility Denial Pain With CMS

• 8 Home Health: CMS Whittles Home Health Compare Measures To 10

• 9 Enforcement: Don't Let Networking Weave A Tangled Web

• 10 Long-Term Care: How CMS Plans To Make Staffing Choices Safer

• 11 BILL WATCH