Blue Shield and Landmark Home Health Care Visits For Chronic Illness
For eligible members, there is no additional cost to participate in this program or for services provided by Landmark. Covered services provided by non-Landmark providers through a referral from...
View ArticleNew Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period For 2019
You must have been enrolled in a Medicare Advantage medical plan to take advantage of the MA OEP. If you never enrolled in a MA or MA-PD, you can’t join one during the MA OEP. You can’t switch...
View ArticleMaintaining Health Insurance Coverage After California Wildfires
If you have to move out of your county because of the wildfires you may be entitled to a Special Enrollment Period. California is broken into 19 different rating regions. Los Angeles County is actually...
View ArticleMedicare Advantage Plans Are Not Free, Federal Government Subsidies In...
In California, there are thirteen counties where the Medicare Advantage capitation amount will exceed $1,000 per enrolled member. This does not include any possible bonuses based on quality scores OR...
View ArticleBuilding Your Medicare Train Of Health and Drug Coverage
The great thing about Medicare is that you can build your train the way you want. You can change the train cars every year. But the important aspect is that you own the Medicare engine. You are the...
View ArticleCreating a spreadsheet to compare Medicare Advantage plans
Once you know which plans support your providers, you can begin to build your benefit comparison spreadsheet. I have broken this spreadsheet into 3 categories: medical, prescription drug, and...
View ArticleThe FairStreet Medicare Advantage
The team at FairStreet had to overcome my built-in skepticism. One aspect of their company that they inadvertently revealed to me was that they were not a sales company. They had a different approach...
View ArticleMedicare Advantage Escape Hatch
If you find yourself in a Medicare Advantage plan you do not like, you have an escape hatch to another plan. The Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period is a short period of time when you can escape...
View ArticleAre PPO Medicare Advantage Plans Better HMOs?
Other plans may have an out-of-network deductible of $500 to $750+. The out-of-network deductible must be satisfied before the plan begins to share in the cost of the health care services or...
View ArticleWhy Medicare Health Plan Help Maybe Difficult to Find
The impacts of so many Medicare plans not paying an agent commission will suppress the number agents who are willing to assist enrollments for no compensation. In other words, some Medicare...
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