If you enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan or a Medicare Advantage Drug Plan and aren’t happy, you can make a change between January 1 - March 31, 2022. This special enrollment period is only for people who enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan in 2022 What Can I Do...
Medicare Open Enrollment began October 15 and ends December 7, 2021. Many of my family members are covered by Medicare, and like a lot of you, they are confused by all of the options Medicare offers. The mail they get with plan information overwhelms them. They...
Medicare’s open enrollment period runs from October 15 – December 7. There are a lot of things you can do now that you can’t do any other time of the year. You can: Move from Original Medicare to a Medicare Advantage Plan.Move from a Medicare Advantage Plan back...
Healthcare is a major focus of President Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2022. The funding request includes a 23.4% increase in the Department of Health and Human Services’ budget, raising it to 133.7 billion. Numerous other agencies and programs...
There has been a substantial increase in the number of individuals signing up for health insurance when compared to the previous years. Over 528,000 Americans signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act from the start of the 2021 Special...
The CDC estimated that at the end of 2018, 1.2 million Americans were living with HIV; 186,500 of those cases were a result of intravenous drug use (HIV Surveillance Report, 2020). This is a growing trend, as 2,492 newly diagnosed HIV cases were reported among people...
As if 2020 has not been stressful enough, now scammers are using the COVID-19 pandemic to prey on Medicare and Medicaid recipients by promising free care to their patients in order to gain their personal and health information, including their dates of birth, social...
