Browsing: Medicare

Home health care in the United States is really expensive. In fact, the cost increased by more than 14% between March 2023 and 2024, with the…

Are you getting bombarded with TV commercials and a mountain of health insurance advertisements in the mail? You’re not the only one. It’s that time of…

Millions of Americans are eligible for a Medicare prescription drug savings program but aren’t signed up. You might be one of them. Extra Help is a…

A new year means new changes to your Medicare coverage. On the one hand, in 2024, you can expect to see higher premiums and deductibles on…

getty It’s Medicare Open Enrollment Period. As I wrote earlier, Open Enrollment this year is unusually important because of significant changes in Medicare Advantage and Part…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released last week the 2025 Medicare Parts A and B premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts. The Medicare open…

In my last article, I focused on the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program and how it works in retirement. In this article, I’m going to focus…

  A Medicare Advantage Plan is another option for a federal retiree age 65 and older to supplement their Original Medicare (Medicare Part A and Medicare…

Federal employees are eligible to enroll in Medicare when they become age 65. Depending on whether they are retired from federal service and enrolled in the…

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the UNITE HERE hospitality union in New York on June 21, … [+] 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS /…