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 […]
Today we’re going to be going through how you can search for the most cost-effective Medicare Part D plan. What we do as an insurance broker is we actually use the Medicare.gov website to search for our clients prescription drug plans In California, there’s actually 30 different prescription drug plans (as of 2019) so it […]
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 […]
October is here which also means it’s the Medicare Open Enrollment. Starting today, October 15th until December 7th you will be able to make changes to some of your Medicare plans. If you are happy with your Medicare plans, there is nothing you need to do. Your plans will automatically renew for 2019. However, if you […]
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 […]
Now that we are in the New Year there are some things you should remember about your Part D prescription drug plans. In the fall (September and October) of each year, the Part D insurance companies send out a letter called ANOC. This acronym means ‘Annual Notice of Changes’ with emphasis on ‘Changes’. The companies […]
Medicare is uncharted territory for most of the 10,000 people who become eligible for the program each day. There are some pitfalls lurking in the undergrowth and traps that can cost plenty unless people take care to avoid them.. Mistake #1: Believing you don’t need Medicare Part B if you have retiree or COBRA health […]