The Medicare Special Enrollment Period (SEP) is essentially an exemption that allows seniors who meet certain circumstantial events to make Medicare Advantage plan purchases outside of the annual open enrollment period. Qualifying circumstances include: Seniors with a change in there permanent address Seniors who enter or leave a nursing home Seniors who are eligible for [...]
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Blue To You by Horizon BCBS
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is looking to significantly increase person to person customer service according to the press release found on MarketWatch. The member-focused program is called “Blue to You” and involves the use of a multi-purpose van driving through neighborhoods in New Jersey. The Horizon Blue to You mobile van [...]
MediBlue HMO by Empire BCBS
There is just over 1 week left in Medicare Open Enrollment. If you live in NY state and are still shopping for a Medicare health plan, the MediBlue HMO suite of plans offered by Empire BlueCross BlueShield are worth taking a look. MediBlue HMO Essential is a Medicare Advantage Plan without Prescription Drug Coverage. MediBlue [...]
Quality Health Plan to Shut Doors
Quality Health Plan, a Florida Medicare HMO with 10,000 has been ordered into liquidation after failing to maintain appropriate levels of claims reserves and being unable to raise the necessary funds. Existing members of Quality Health Plan will be moved over to a yet unnamed Medicare health plan in the state, by December 1. The [...]
TexanPlus HMO
There is less than three weeks left in Medicare open enrollment period. The next Medicare health plan to be profiled is one that is available exclusively to Medicare beneficiaries in Texas. The plan is called TexanPlus HMO. TexanPlus is Medicare Advantage plan offered by Universal American Insurance Company. There are three TexanPlus plan options; 1) [...]
Regence MedAdvantage by Regence Blue Shield
We are in the midst of Medicare open enrollment — which runs through December 7th this year — so we thought we would profile a number of Medicare Advantage plans for our readers. The first of these such plans is Regence Medadvantage, a Medicare Advantage PPO offered by Regence Blue Shield of Washington. There are [...]
HealthAmerica Insurance Kiosks
HealthAmerica, has opened retail health insurance kiosks at 9 Pittsburgh area malls to answer questions and sell health insurance policies to individual health insurance customers as well as those over age 65 shopping for a Medicare health plan. The HealthAmerica kiosks can be found at the following malls: Beaver Valley Mall, Clearview Mall, Monroeville Mall, [...]
Change In Medicare Open Enrollment Causing Confusion
Stuart Millard, a Certified Financial Planner, who heads Senior Insurance Solutions in Massachusetts says most people are confused by Medicare and very few are aware of the changes in open enrollment. According to the article “Key Change Could Screw Up Your 2012 Medicare” by Susan Ladika on FoxBusiness.com, many seniors are very accustomed to waiting [...]
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 [...]
