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Medicare Advantage Plans: Buyers Beware!
On Monday, the New York Times ran a great story about Medicare Advantage Plans. Medicare Advantage Plans are a type of health plan sold by private insurance companies. The plans are associated with Medicare. It seems that seniors across the country have been duped into signing away their Medicare benefits by enrolling in a Medicare Advantage Plan. In some cases, the seniors didn’t understand how the Medicare Advantage Plans worked, and in others, they didn’t even know that the...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
Hospice: Discover a Free Medicare Benefit
Hospice services are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. There is always a nurse on call at night and on weekends. The nurse will visit a patient as long and as often as necessary to ensure quality care. Because of this wonderful service, many people are under the impression that hospice care is expensive, and believe they cannot afford such treatment. However Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies cover hospice care and services. This would include,...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
The Facts: What Medicaid Pays for Long-term Care
People often confuse Medicaid for Medicare, another popular government-sponsored program. However, these programs are very different in what they are designed to do. Medicare is the national health care assistance program provided by the federal government. Its function is to make sure that affordable health care is available to all seniors and disabled people younger than 65. On the other hand, Medicaid is a program run by the individual states—along with some federal assistance—and it varies considerably from one state...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
