Many Medicare beneficiaries are not aware that open enrollment starts this Saturday, October 15th and runs through December 7th, 2011. Between Medicare enrollment and Medicare supplement information, seniors are feeling overwhelmed. Medicare.gov has done it’s best to educate consumers on the important dates they should know to help them plan. As of October 1, new [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Top Medicare Health Plans in Ohio
If you are an Ohio resident and shopping for a Medicare Health Plan during open enrollment, which begins October 15 this year, check out this page for a nice ranking of the top plans http://www.medicarehealthplan.org/medicare-advantage/plan-ratings/ohio.html. They did a nice job of repackaging the annual rankings created by NCQA into a much more readable and user [...]
Alabama Health Insurance Exchange Update
Health insurance in Alabama could be facing some big changes with health care reform upon us. The article by Dana Beyerle on The Gadsden Times talks the inaugural meeting held last month. Governor Robert Bentley’s Health Insurance Exchange Study Commission met at the Capitol auditorium in September. The commission was created in June to help [...]
Medicare Changes Surprise Seniors
A recent survey shows that about two-thirds of seniors are unaware that the Medicare enrollment period has been moved. This could end up costing them if the information doesn’t get to them in time. The Medicare enrollment period opens October 15th instead of November. If beneficiaries do not enroll by December 7th, they will have [...]
Aetna Health Insurance and CVS Team Up
Aetna Health Insurance and CVS Caremark Corp have teamed up to offer a US Medicare prescription drug plan to their customers. The Aetna Plan was recently announced and it offers a no deductible plan for generic drugs and will only cost $26 per month. This is the next joint effort between an insurer and drug [...]
Medicaid in Texas Facing Possible Changes
Supplemental Medicaid payments are at risk in Texas for private hospitals, including about 21 facilities owned by publicly traded Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). There is a state proposal to revamp the health care structure for individual health insurance in Texas. This includes the health care program for the poor and if it’s approved, Medicaid [...]
