by Healthcare Educators Team
October 15 through December 7 is Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period (AEP), also known as Fall Open Enrollment. During this period, Medicare beneficiaries make important decisions about whether they should change to their Medicare coverage for the coming year. During...
by Healthcare Educators Team
What happens if you decide you want to change your Medicare Supplement plan? Maybe it’s become too expensive or perhaps your circumstances have changed and your plan is no longer a good fit. Or maybe you would like to switch from a Medicare Advantage plan to Original...
by Healthcare Educators Team
CMS reports that an estimated 117 million adults have one or more chronic health conditions and 25% of adults have two or more chronic health conditions. To help Medicare beneficiaries who fall into these groups achieve better health outcomes, Medicare offers Special...
by Healthcare Educators Team
Each year in September, Medicare mails its official Medicare & You Handbook to all Medicare beneficiaries. The Handbook is a helpful, easy-to-understand guide that covers the basics of Medicare, shares what’s new and important for the upcoming year, and provides...
by Healthcare Educators Team
With the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, you may find yourself among the millions of people who are no longer eligible for Medicaid. If this is the case, you will no longer qualify for your Medicare Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) and will need...
by Healthcare Educators Team
If you are one of the 37.3 million Americans who has diabetes, you are all too familiar with the high cost of insulin. In response to the rising cost of this medication, in August 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act — an expansive bill that aims,...
