In the Medicare Advantage Minute we learn that algorithms used by the big 3 MA companies automatically reject 1 in 4 requests for post-acute care.

Your Medicare Benefits 2024 teaches us how the program is likely to cover Chronic Care Management Services, in case you ever need them.

In answers to questions from Randy, I explain that the Part D drug plan online enrollment process has been improved to allow me to enroll my clients. On the other hand, in order to select the "best" plan I must be able to predict the needs of the client will face in the coming year. Otherwise, my recommendation is just a worthless crap shoot.

Finally I review the changes in drug plans in 2025, list the three benefit stages of a drug plans and list just a few of the problems one might experience with a Medicare Advantage plan.

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Enjoy the fascinating story of how the geniuses at Medicare failed to figure out that Medicare Advantage plans have been dodging the claims of their members who also receive treatment at the VA!

In "Your Medicare Benefits 2024", we learn how Medicare pays for Children's Kidney Disease and Chiropractic Services.

Doug's wife has been a happy client with High Deductible Plan G and now his 65th birthday is approaching and he wants in on the fun!

Finally, we learn that some new programs are coming down the pike, including dementia support services in which volunteers are trained to care for dementia patients.

(By volunteers we probably mean family members)

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In the Medicare Advantage Minute, we learn:

Government Scrapped a MA Rule Over Industry Opposition

Let the Billions of dollars in fraudulent payments continue to drain the US treasury! MA plans have managed to drag their feet for ten years after government review of patient records fails to find treatments they thought they had paid for.

Check out how Medicare will pay for Chronic Pain Management in "Your Medicare Benefits 2024".

Looks like they are planning to cut doctor reimbursements again but the AMA purports to be fighting that action. We should all want to have happy, prosperous doctors serving Medicare!

Client Shauna writes with some questions that show she has forgotten some of the great benefits of having Medicare + a supplement.

History & trivia department: Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose rolled over and sank in 1545. It was finally raised in 1982.

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