Medicare Advantage Plans May Offer New Supplemental Benefits, But New Co-Pay “Tiers” May Raise Some Costs Enrollees in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans should take a careful look at changes in their health plan for 2 ...

Tax Planning?  Medical Expense Deduction Becomes Less Generous in 2019 Although there’s a new higher standard deduction for U.S. taxpayers this year, tax professionals are cautioning taxpayers against automatically ta ...

Are You Making These Costly Medicare Mistakes? Scientific research has confirmed that the human mind is basically lazy, and an abundance of choices, (more than 3) completely shuts down the decision-making process.  Dr ...

Four Ways To Pay For Dental Care  About one-out-of-four older Americans say that cost is a higher barrier to getting dental care than for any other type of medical service.  Sixty-four percent of working age American ...

Make Sure You Know The Correct Co-pay Before You Fill That Prescription! When Leslie R., of Arizona recently called her drug plan to refill a 90 day supply of her insulin drug Lantus, the customer service representati ...

What’s Secretly Sabotaging Your Finances? — Your Brain Rather than making deliberate well-reasoned choices, our brains often latch onto the first piece of information offered when making a decision, even though we may ...

That Drug May Be Cheaper If You Pay Cash Instead of Using Your Drug Plan By Mary Johnson, editor Before filling your next prescription, here’s a tip.  Call four pharmacies that you typically deal with and, without ...

Over-diagnosis: Medicare Preventive Services Don’t Always Make Sense For Everyone Medicare covers most, or all, of the cost of many preventive services, like annual mammograms and PSA tests for prostate cancer.  But t ...

The High Cost Of Not Taking Your Prescriptions            As many as 30% of new prescriptions are never filled, and medication isn’t taken by patients as prescribed, about half of the time.  The problem is so common ...