Here's a list of common scams from the StopMedicareFraud.gov website: Be suspicious of doctors, healthcare providers, or suppliers who: Ask for your Medicare number in exchange for free equipment or services or fo ...
Daily Archives: October 9, 2013
Social Security & Medicare Questions: October 2013
Can Home Health Agencies Provide Rebates? Q: My brother-in-law has a low income and is getting home healthcare services. Recently I stopped in and saw a fancy new TV. When asked where it came from, my brother-in-law s ...
Ask the Advisor: October 2013
Q: I'm 60 and I buy my own health insurance. Would I qualify for the new Obamacare health insurance exchanges? How much would I pay? I paid $271 per month this year, but I have a $5,000 deductible with a $10,000 annual ...
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Best Ways To Save Get 8 pages of the best tips FREE from TSCL's The Social Security & Medicare Advisor. When should you start Social Security benefits? Learn how one woman will receive $117,663 more by waiting ...
Best Ways To Save: October 2013
Check Your Drug Coverage: 2014 Part D Initial Coverage Less Generous Medicare Part D's infamous drug coverage gap, aka: the "doughnut hole," is slowly closing — a widely touted benefit of the 2010 healthcare law. Sev ...
Important Message to All Medicare Beneficiaries
Beware of Obamacare Scams! There's a huge amount of confusion about the new healthcare reform marketplaces and the start of Obamacare. That creates all sorts of new opportunities for scams. TSCL has learned that some ...
How Much Do You Know About Medicare?
Take A Quiz Medicare remains a target of budget cuts in Washington as political leaders and other policy makers consider potential changes to the program. How much do you know about Medicare, the people it serves, the ...
Legislative Update: October 2013
By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Each year, Medicare and Medicaid – two of the government's largest and most financially strapped programs – lose tens of billions of dollars to fraud, waste, and abuse. Deficit ...
Benefit Bulletin: October 2013
Program Helps With Heating Costs But Don't Wait to Apply Research shows that people over the age of 65 are more vulnerable to heating-related health risks. That's why it's so important to have adequate heat in the win ...
If Immigration Really Shores Up Social Security and Medicare, Then Why The Press to Cut Benefits?
Mary Johnson, editor Advocates of immigration reform say that more immigration would help shore up Social Security and Medicare because the programs need more workers. But some of the same people, including President ...
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