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Medicare Expanding Coverage To Reduce Cardiovascular Disease
CMS announces new Medicare preventative service to reduce cardiovascular disease CMS announced Tuesday November 8, 2011 that they are expanding coverage to reduce cardiovascular heart disease in...
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Higher Medicare Costs Or Less Benefits | The Fiscal Cliff
Debt Super Committee failure may mean a 2% cut to Medicare News reporters and media types are giddy. The members of the Debt Super Committee tasked with finding 1.2 Trillion in budget cuts were...
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CMS Assigns 5 Star Rating To 11 Advantage Plans
Only 11 Medicare Advantage plans made the grade Of all the Medicare Advantage plans available nationally, CMS rated only eleven as top performers. Medicare Advantage plans are rated on over 50 items...
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Medicare Premiums And Deductibles Increase For 2013
Increasing Medicare premiums and deductibles to impact some more than others If you have been enrolled in Medicare for sometime you know that premiums and deductibles increase annually and 2013 is no...
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Government Propaganda Or Real Medicare Part D Savings?
Does the source of a press release give it more validity? Press releases have been used in one form or another ever since things or ideas needed to be sold. It’s common to see press releases for new...
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Cuts To Medicare Advantage Just A Matter Of Time
Medicare cuts have been delayed for now but the future doesn’t look bright It’s no secret that the Obama administration is no fan of the Medicare Advantage program and would like to see cuts to the...
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ObamaCare Hasn’t Slowed Down Medicare Advantage Enrollment
Contrary to some opinions Medicare Advantage is not going away in 2014 You’ve heard it on television, on talk radio and you’ve read about it online and in the newspapers: ObamaCare is going decimate...
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2014 Medicare Part D Changes
Part D Standard Benefit Model Changes for 2014 detailed The Part D Standard Benefit Model is a set of guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that are applied to all Part...
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United Healthcare Provider Network Cuts For Medicare Plans
United Healthcare provider network shake-up Some Medicare beneficiaries are getting bad news related to 2014 Medicare Advantage Plans offered by United Healthcare. All across the country, doctors...
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2014 Medicare Premiums And Deductibles Announced
News not so bad related to 2014 Medicare Premiums and deductibles Anyone who has been enrolled in Medicare for a while knows that this is the time of year when CMS announces any changes in Medicare...
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Part B Premium Changes
Some get good news related to Part B premium changes for 2012 The reduction in your monthly Social Security check is a reminder that Medicare Part B is not free. Over the years the monthly Part B...
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Medicare Deductible Changes Mean Higher Costs To You
How Medicare deductible changes effect your pocketbook Medicare was not originally designed to offer zero dollar coverage. Like traditional health insurance for people under 65, Medicare requires...
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Medicare Premium And Deductible Changes – 2015
2015 Medicare premiums stable but changes to deductibles and coinsurance The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has released data on 2015 Medicare premiums, deductibles and coinsurance amounts. Any...
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Are They Dismantling Medicare As We Know It?
This is Huge! Medicare faces historic overhaul Starting in 2016 the Obama administration plans to change how Medicare pays for your medical bills. Beginning next year Medicare plans to base 30% of the...
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Medicare Doc Fix and What It Means For Your Pocketbook
Medicare legislation means higher out-of-pocket costs in the future It plays out in congress every year. Doctors are threatened with payment cuts and congress ultimately kicks the can down the road...
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Medicare Costs – 2016 Premium And Deductible Changes
How not getting a raise in Your Social Security impacts your Medicare Part B premiums As a Social Security recipient you may be disappointed that there will not be a Cost of Living Adjustment COLA for...
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2017 Medicare Part D Premiums
Medicare projects Part D premiums will remain stable in 2017 2017 Part D prescription drug plan premiums are expected to average $34 per month. This represents a $1.50 per month increase over the...
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Medicare Premiums 2017 – What to Expect
What are the chances that your Medicare premiums for 2017 will go up? If you’re like most people enrolled in Medicare you know that Medicare premiums can increase. This brief article and the video...
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Medicare Part B – 2017 Premium and Deductible Changes
2017 Part B premium and deductible changes to increase costs Every year about this time The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announce the Medicare Part B premium and deductible for the coming...
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ObamaCare Hasn’t Slowed Down Medicare Advantage Enrollment
Contrary to some opinions Medicare Advantage is not going away in 2014 You’ve heard it on television, on talk radio and you’ve read about it online and in the newspapers: ObamaCare is going decimate...
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