Medicare beneficiaries know that having access to affordable medications is critical for maintaining their health and well-being. Medicare Part D does not always make it easy to understand which medications are covered and which are not. One issue is coverage limitations for certain medications. Fortunately, there are ways to request exceptions to these limitations and […]
If you’re a Medicare beneficiary, you know that having access to affordable medications is critical for maintaining your health and wellbeing. Medicare Part D is part of the federal program that helps coordinate your prescription drug coverage that you’ve purchased through a private insurance company, but it’s not always easy to understand which medications are […]
We get questions all the time about what the Medicare donut hole is. The donut hole is a gap in the prescription coverage under Part D of Medicare when the total costs of you prescriptions throughout a given year reaches $3820 (2019). That is a combination of what you have paid out of your pocket […]
Combating Waste and Fraud in Medicare: President Trump’s choice for Secretary of the Department of Labor, is Alexander Acosta. There is consensus among both Democrats and Republicans that this is a good choice. He has been described as “just a mild-mannered law school faculty member.” Allison Bell, in an article for LifeHealthPro. In reality, from […]