Health Insurance

With the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, the Medicare Part D Subscription Drug Program became law, and Medicare beneficiaries finally received help paying for outpatient prescription drugs they obtain at their local pharmacy. However, this law prohibited Medicare from negotiating drug prices for its beneficiaries. Thus, pharmaceutical…

Every year around this time, there’s the annual right of passage known as Medicare Open Enrollment. For those not yet on Medicare or without interest in the whole Medicare selection process, read no further. But for those of us on Medicare, new to Medicare, or with health conditions that are…

Anyone who has signed up for Medicare or is anticipating doing so in the foreseeable future knows that it can be a cumbersome and complex process, with lots of factors to consider and decisions to be made. While ample resources exist to help you understand the Medicare system, it’s always…

It comes like clockwork every Fall. As anyone over age 65 knows, we are now at the beginning of Open Enrollment season for Medicare. As we’ve noted in prior agebuzz posts, this is the time of year (from Oct. 15th – December 7th) that Medicare enrollees have the opportunity to…

Late October is not only the time for prime-leaf watching, or family negotiations about who will host Thanksgiving, but it’s also Open Enrollment time for those on Medicare. The Medicare, Medigap and Medicare Advantage plans for 2020, and their scope of coverage and offerings, are now available for you to…

For some of us, it’s our worst nightmare; somehow forgetting to pay an important bill and then suffering the consequences as a result. For over 200,000 Medicare recipients, their premium bills went unpaid for several months – but not because the recipients forgot to pay. Rather, it seems Medicare messed…