If your parents are 65 or older, Congress passed a Medicare prescription benefit last year that allows seniors to get a discount on prescriptions. The program isn’t going to start for a while, but, as a transition, seniors will get discount drug cards. But the AARP wants you to know that there are scam artists trying to dupe people with phony cards. The soonest cards are available will be this summer, and the discounts may be as little as high as 25 percent. The companies offering the legitimate cards have been approved by Medicare and will have an official Medicare seal on them. So, don’t pay anyone for a card until summer and you see the real seal on the cards. Clark will announce again when they are in circulation.

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Companies are also going to start tagging medicines with RFID technology. These are radio frequency tags that will verify that a medicine was made in a laboratory and will display when it was made. It will take a couple years to phase in, but you will know exactly where your medicines have been. The FDA is pushing this because the agency spends so much time tracking down counterfeit medications, according to the Washington Post. These tags are designed to prevent this fake medicine from ending up on your body.