Medicare Program Team

Do you have Medicare or will you be able to sign up soon? Medicare has four parts: A, B, C, and D. It is important that you understand how each part is different and which parts you will need for TRICARE For Life (TFL). TFL provides…
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Last month, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a study examining how Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing Medicare…
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Occasionally, new retirees enrolling in Medicare may find themselves paying additional monthly premium charges. However, for those whose income falls on retirement, this may change. Approximately 7% of the 63.3 million Medicare recipients…
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With a global health crisis approaching the world, the world's population is getting sicker than ever. Most, if not all, drown in medical debts without sufficient assistance and monetary subsidies. Fortunately, there are federal health…
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One of the most important leaders in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Meena Seshamani, is optimistic about the future of the home health care industry. He detailed why last month at the Home Health Care News…
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CMS will close similar plans (any Medicare Advantage plan with more than 80% of a doubly eligible population) in 2023, and those enrolled will move to D-SNP. This impending change has helped drive insurers' interest in these plans, Phillips…
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Dialysis providers saw a change in the payment model for treating Medicare patients when CMS instituted the prospective payment system in 2011. The pooling of payments to providers streamlined spending for a costly federal-funded…
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The impetus to fix the prior authorization is being generated following a report from the Inspector General's Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) showing that Medicare Advantage plans delayed and denied patients access to…
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Something strange happened between the time Linda Griffith enrolled in a new Medicare prescription drug plan during the enrollment period last fall and when she tried to fill out her first prescription in January. He chose a Humana drug…
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For Medicare beneficiaries who are wondering if their Part B premiums could be reduced, the wait continues. More than three months after Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra ordered a reassessment of this year's standard…
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