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House Calls Anyone?

Posted by AnaLise  Published in supplement plans

I remember when I was a kid, my grandmother was ill for several years. She suffered several strokes and she didn’t get out much. We came to her house and I stayed with her a lot of weekends. She was an amazing person, but when she wasn’t feeling well, she had to take it easy [...]

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Getting Through The Application Process

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If you have never had to apply for Medicaid, this is a wake up call. I am addressing Medicaid enrollment here rather than Medicare because Medicaid is the easier of the two. I just helped someone through the process and I used to teach people both privately and in classes, how to find the benefits [...]

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More Barriers for Medicare Advantage

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President Obama proposes slashing taxpayer subsidies of Medicare Advantage in order to fund health coverage for uninsured Americans. Insurance companies make a lot of money selling Medicare Advantage. Nearly 1 in 5 people eligible for Medicare in this country have bought a version of Medicare Advantage, the ratio in Minnesota and otherstates is 1 in [...]

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Trusts and Your Benefits

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Usually when you apply for various beneits, such as Medicare, you are put under a fine-tooth comb regarding how much money you have, the assets you have, whether you have a bank account, whether you have a home, own a car and even how much your furniture is worth – piece by piece. If all [...]

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Most Medicare Part D Enrollees Don’t Choose the Lowest Cost Drug Plan

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Most Medicare Part D Enrollees Don’t Choose the Lowest Cost Drug Plan Medicare choices have expanded over the past few years. Medicare Part D and other Medicare options come in every shape, size and amount. In some cases, the more you pay, the more you get. In others, this is not true. And in still [...]

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“Observation Stays” and Hospital Payments

Posted by AnaLise  Published in supplement plans

There is something called an “observation stay” at many hospitals that has been around and been an issue for many years but few patients and few of us in the public hear about it. Years ago, before healthcare costs went through the roof you would often hear a doctor say to a patient “Let’s keep [...]

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Help Urged for Emergency Services through CMS

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In a recent letter, 123 bipartisan members of Congress urged leaders for help in strongly encouraging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise policies governing Medicare’s payment of emergency services, supplies, and other obligations after 36 months of service. Reps. Mike Ross (D-AR), Tom Price (R-GA), Heath Shuler (D-NC) and Jo Ann [...]

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Medicare Spent Over $8 billion on Dialysis in 2007

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The information here covers two urgent issues that seem to be becoming more urgent: Diabetes (specifically dialysis) and Medicare (specifically the cost of dialysis). In 2007, the average Medicare dialysis payment was $155 per treatment and each dialysis drug payment averaged $75, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s March report to Congress. For composite [...]

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