Health Law Changes Rules For Docs With In-House Imaging Machines
Here are excerpts from a Kaiser Health News article: ….Under the new health care overhaul law, doctors who refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to in-house imaging machines must disclose in writing...
View ArticleMedicare Advantage Cancellation: Your Options
If your Medicare Advantage plan is cancelled, you have two options: Change to another Advantage plan or return to Medicare and get a Medicare Supplement – with no questions asked. This is called...
View Article2011 Medicare Advantage Changes
Six months ago I was predicting big changes for Arizona Medicare Advantage plans in 2011. I was wrong. There will be very few changes to most of the Arizona Medicare Advantage plans in 2011. Most HMO...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On With Medicare
Everyone enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan or Part D drug plan should have received a package of information that includes the “Annual Notice of Change”. Somewhere in this material is a comparison...
View ArticleWhat Happens To Health Care Reform Now?
Republicans say they will repeal or refuse to fund the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). The very large bill involved many areas of health care reform, from Medicare pilot programs to limiting the...
View ArticleSeniors Fled Democrats in Midterms
From Poltico on November 8, 2010: Concerned by changes to Medicare and compelled by a Republican Party that promised a return to America’s glory days, seniors played a crucial — and often understated —...
View ArticleNew Deficit Report Recommends Seniors Pay More For Medicare
From Kaiser Health News: A debt reduction task force that was created by the Bipartisan Policy Center recently made recommendations for reducing government spending. The task force, made up of...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform and Medicare in 2011
Republicans want to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act which impacts a broad range of medical and health insurance issues. Many of the reforms are actually quite popular with the public. Here are...
View ArticleDon’t Like Your Medicare Advantage Plan?
In past years, people enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans had the months of January, February, and March to change to another Advantage plan. That is no longer the case, and only one option is...
View ArticleRyan plan would double health care costs for seniors on Medicare.
Health care expenditures would double for the elderly in every state by 2022 if the Republican plan for Medicare is implemented. This is the finding of a detailed analysis of the Ryan plan for turning...
View ArticleMedicare Changes: Durable Medical Equipment
Medicare is changing the way it works with durable medical Equipment suppliers. People who use their Medicare card (and probably have a Medicare supplement) need to pay attention to this, However,...
View ArticleMedicare Supplements: No changes coming
Medicare supplement Plan F fills all the gaps in Medicare, leaving a person with no co-pays for services covered by Medicare. Medicare pays its part of the bill and Plan F pays the deductibles and...
View ArticleMedicare Advantage Changes Coming for 2014
Changes are coming to Medicare Advantage plans. I’ve been attending meetings for independent brokers who represent Medicare Advantage plans in Southern Arizona and my head is spinning with news of...
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