Medicare...maybe we should have stayed home
well, we're at Lake Pleasant heading in the next week to Quartzsite or maybe Glamis, not sure. hubby is already enrolled in Medicare, turning 65 in December. We got the material before we left. So...
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Your husband should have received a book titled "MEDICARE & YOU 2016".
In the back of that ~190 page book is a listing of ALL the supplemental and part D drug plans that apply to your husband.
You can also access this information on medicare's official website.
https://www.medicare.gov/
Your husband can save lots of money by going to a Medicare Advantage plan. Read all about a Medicare Advantage plan in PART C of the Medicare book or online.
I have a Part C Advantage plan and pay nothing. Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Drug coverage is included. Again I pay nothing. I actually receive $6 more in my monthly SS benefit because the amount Medicare pays my private provider is $6 less than what regular medicare costs the government. My wife has the same Part C plan and she also receives an additional $6 a month in her SS monthly benefit.
I'll add, I have no Medicare card. My private insurer issues a BC/BS card.
I'm 70 and have had a Medicare Advantage Part C plan since I turned 65.
What ever plan your husband chooses he can change, if not satisfied, every Fall during the enrollment period.
-Tom
In the back of that ~190 page book is a listing of ALL the supplemental and part D drug plans that apply to your husband.
You can also access this information on medicare's official website.
https://www.medicare.gov/
Your husband can save lots of money by going to a Medicare Advantage plan. Read all about a Medicare Advantage plan in PART C of the Medicare book or online.
I have a Part C Advantage plan and pay nothing. Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Drug coverage is included. Again I pay nothing. I actually receive $6 more in my monthly SS benefit because the amount Medicare pays my private provider is $6 less than what regular medicare costs the government. My wife has the same Part C plan and she also receives an additional $6 a month in her SS monthly benefit.
I'll add, I have no Medicare card. My private insurer issues a BC/BS card.
I'm 70 and have had a Medicare Advantage Part C plan since I turned 65.
What ever plan your husband chooses he can change, if not satisfied, every Fall during the enrollment period.
-Tom
