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Be Smart with Your Medicare Options
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Be Smart with Your Medicare Options

When it comes to Medicare, you’ve got some options. Here’s what to consider, and when you might want to make changes to your current plan.

Avoid These 5 Big Medicare Mistakes
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Avoid These 5 Big Medicare Mistakes

Medicare beneficiaries often make costly mistakes during the annual year-end “open enrollment” period during which they are allowed to make…

Medicare Advantage Trap
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Medicare Advantage Trap

When Americans become Medicare eligible, typically at age 65, they can choose to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan, which…

Medicare Will Pay to Help You Prevent Diabetes
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Medicare Will Pay to Help You Prevent Diabetes

If you get diabetes and your doctor prescribes medications, Medicare will kick in its allotted share of the drug costs.…

Medicare Offers Free Weight-Loss Counseling
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Medicare Offers Free Weight-Loss Counseling

Medicare offers free weight-loss counseling, but fewer than 1% of Medicare’s 50 million beneficiaries use it—even though 30% of seniors…

Medicare Premiums Could Soar
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Medicare Premiums Could Soar

Medicare recently warned that Part B premiums could increase by as much as 52% for certain recipients in 2016. This…

Medicare Traps 2015
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Medicare Traps 2015

Avoid These 4 Costly Mistakes If you fail to fully grasp certain Medicare rules, you could end up paying unnecessarily high…

Medicare Mistakes: Traps That Can Leave You Without Enough Insurance
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Medicare Mistakes: Traps That Can Leave You Without Enough Insurance

It’s that time of year again, when millions of people try to figure out whether they are making the right…

Medicare Drug Plans
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Medicare Drug Plans

Answers to your vital questions Medicare Part D, also known as Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, has been available for more…

When a Medicare Claim Is Denied
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When a Medicare Claim Is Denied

How to fight back and win Many seniors assume that they have no choice but to pay when their Medicare…