SelectHealth Five-Star Rating for Medicare Advantage Plan
Good news! SelectHealth has received the first five-star rating for a Medicare Advantage plan in Idaho. This means that the plan is one of the best-performing plans in Idaho in terms of factors like member feedback, member retention, hospital and doctor data, customer service, and more. While star rating is just one important factor to […]
AEP is here!
The Annual Election Period (AEP) occurs only once a year from October 15th to December 7th. This period provides the important opportunity to assess the available Medicare Advantage Plans and Part D drug plans. Plan changes made during this time apply to the following calendar year. Make sure your doctor plans to continue accepting Medicare […]
Quarterly over-the-counter benefit reminder for Blue Cross of Idaho, United Healthcare, Humana, and Molina Medicare Advantage Plans
If you have a Medicare Advantage Plan with one of these four companies, this post will serve as a reminder of your quarterly over-the-counter benefit. You are allotted a given cash value that you are able to use to purchase over-the-counter items each quarter of the year. This allotment expires and resets each quarter, meaning […]
Medicare Advantage Plans in 2021
It’s likely that you have heard about Medicare Advantage Plans at this point. They are a type of private Medicare insurance that also represents the shift toward value-based care in the American healthcare system. Providers are given incentives to improve ‘quality outcomes’ rather than simply provide a high volume of services. This is good news […]
New Medicare Cards
The New Medicare Card mailing is complete! Everyone currently on Medicare should have their new card with the randomly-generated Medicare number replacing Social Security Numbers on Medicare cards and in Medicare systems. This number is also known as the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI). The biggest reason CMS took the SSN off of Medicare cards is […]
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month!
To make sure Americans are reminded of the need to include life insurance in their financial plans, the nonprofit organization Life Happens coordinates Life Insurance Awareness Month. Each September, Life Happens is joined in this educational initiative by more than 100 of the nation’s leading insurance companies and industry groups. The main reason to buy […]
Your Personal Resource
There is great value in having an independent agent at your fingertips. At absolutely no cost to you, you have a local advocate when you need it most. I am here to assist you each and every year in evaluating new plans and plan changes that may affect you. I value our relationship and am […]
Medicare Advantage Plans continue to grow.
Medicare Advanatage Plans have grown from 18% to 30% as a proportion of the total Medicare spending from 2007 to 2017. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans has been steadily increasing over the measured decade from 2007 to 2017. 33% of Medicare beneficiaries were covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017, when ten years earlier, just 19% […]
Hang up on Medicare scams!
I had a client call me today to touch base and see if a call he had received was really from his Medicare plan or if it was a scam. Based on our conversation it was definitely a scam! The caller kept requesting more information from him and luckily he realized it was a scam […]