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Tag: Medicare
Medicare’s "BLUE BUTTON" Can Help You Track Care
Medicare’s Blue Button provides you an easy way to download your personal health information to a file. You can download the file of your personal data and save the file on your own personal computer. After you have saved it, you can import that same file into other computer-based personal...
Long-Term Costs Continue to Rise (VIDEO)
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Long-Term Costs Continue to Rise
Courtesy MetLife MetLife Mature Market InstituteÛªs 2012 market survey shows that average national long-term care costs continue to rise. The national average annual charge for a private nursing home room rose to $90,520 this year, while semi-private rooms climbed to $81,030 and assisted living residency jumped to $42,600. Nursing home...
DonÛªt Wait to Enroll in Medicare
The following is a guest post from Ross Blair, President and CEO of Plan Prescriber, Inc., a provider of comparison tools and educational materials for Medicare-related insurance products. In 2011, a record 2.8 million Americans turned 65 and became eligible for Medicare. If youÛªre a newcomer to Medicare this year...
Look Out for These Medicare Scams
Beware Medicare Scammers The web site Medical Billing and Coding has published Medicare Scams that you should be on the lookout. The Poser Scam One of the more common ways criminals scam those with Medicare is by posing as Medicare employees, health care practitioners, or insurance representatives, something many may...
You Better Shop Around for Medicare
The National Council on Aging has published the results of a survey that shows that older adults, especially those struggling financially, need to receive expanded education on Medicare options All eligible seniors are allowed to make changes to their coverage during the Annual Enrollment Period from Oct. 15 äóñ Dec....
Medicare Preventive Benefits
Did you know that Medicare covers over 20 different preventive benefits?æ My Medicare Matters has a chart that can help you sort it out. . Get the chart.
New CMS Site Aggregates Compare Tools
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched the Quality Care Finder designed to help beneficiaries and their caregivers find better health care options.æ It is really an aggregation of tools they already had in place now put into one place for easy finding. You can Get contact information for...
Medicare Rules Too Stringent Courts Find
Federal courts in Pennsylvania and Vermont have ruled that the Obama administration’s Medicare standards are too stringent when it comes to deciding if a patient is eligible for skilled nursing home care or home health. The Federal District Court in Pittsburgh disagreed with Medicare’s decision to terminate coverage of an...