Patients with Medicare Advantage insurance coverage: rural hospitals are asking themselves whether they can afford to keep accepting them!

This is the subject of our "Medicare Advantage Minute" today.

In "Your Medicare Benefits 2025" we learn how Medicare would cover home infusion therapy services.

Then we spot check some rate increase statistics in order to determine whether inflationary trends are still exerting upward pressure on insurance premiums.

They are.

Medicare is not allowed to provide and pay for drugs whose only function is weight loss. Some of the newly distributed GLP-1 drugs provide weight loss effects as well as beneficial treatment of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. This causes a high demand for these expensive meds.

Finally, we learn what some pinko organization thinks are the best states and worst states for overall health care access.

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In our MA Minute we scan the article:

Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage; Ill health often leads to a plan switch!

Bottom line: if one gets sick, one begins to see how MA plans can cause misery!

In today's "Your Medicare Benefits" we learn how and when Medicare will help with Home Health Services.

Client Robert from Virginia is unhappy with the level of Medical inflation that has caused his HDG rates to increase 19%. His home state has just enacted a birthday rule whereby Robert can change companies without having to provide evidence of good health.

Birthday rules like this are spreading across the land. Insurance companies say they drive up their costs, leading to premium increases. On the other hand, they can allow overburdened people covered by expensive supplements to have an escape hatch.

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In the Medicare Advantage Minute" we hear news about seven prior authorization updates from various locations.

Since prior authorizations are a big problem with MA plans, this could be good news for the improvements these plans sorely need!

In the "Your Medicare Benefits 2024" segment we find out how Medicare might cover HIV screenings.

What follows is a short description of shopping for the best Medicare Supplement plan at the lowest cost: SIMPLIFIED!

One of my insurance companies is good enough to notify me when clients are scheduled for a rate increase. Some of my clients have the very comprehensive Plan G with this company and I read off a list of the rate increases these clients can expect to receive: shocking compared to the one rate increase scheduled for the client with HDG Plan: a $3.50 monthly increase!

I'll take that kind of increase all day every day!

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