Category Archives: Medicare
What is the PACE Program in Virginia?
PACE stands for the Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly. And this movement has gained a lot of momentum in recent months, particularly as it relates to concerns about care for the elderly and protecting them well into their later years in life. At its simplest definition, PACE is an alternative to… Read More »
Discharges, Medicare, and Long Term Care Basics for Seniors
A new study identified that Medicare could save approximately $4.6 billion with no negative impact by disallowing discharges to long term care hospitals. The study analyzed different outcomes for patients between 1998 and 2014 for those patients who were discharged to long term hospitals. Do you have long term care insurance to help you… Read More »
Medicare And Veterans Administration Benefits Don’t Work Together
Veterans trying to decide between using their VA benefits or Medicare can use both, but only to a limited extent, according to the website Medicareinteractive.org. http://gty.im/200559688-001 “You can have both Medicare and Veterans Affairs benefits,” the site states. “However, Medicare and VA benefits do not work together. Medicare does not pay for any care… Read More »
Half of seniors eligible for drug benefit don’t apply
A little Extra Help could do senior citizens a world of good, literally and figuratively. That’s the name for a Medicare benefit that can greatly help low-income elderly people pay for their prescriptions, but one that far too many of those eligible for it don’t know exists. “More than 2 million people on Medicare… Read More »
Long-term care insurance faces troublesome future
While many people approaching or in their Golden Years want to take the wise precaution of acquiring long-term care insurance, increasingly they may discover they cannot afford to do so. “With nearly 70 percent of Americans aged 65 or older expected to need long-term medical care at some point, millions of Americans have turned… Read More »
Affordable Care Act Likely to Improve Situations of People with Disabilities
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a hot topic lately, and of great concern to people of all walks of life; but people with disabilities, or who rely on government benefits to help them pay for health care and living expenses, have even more at stake in the game and more reason to be… Read More »
How the Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care Reform May Affect Seniors
The recent Supreme Court ruling of the constitutionality of the new health care reforms has many seniors breathing a sigh of relief. The ruling has ensured that, at least for the time being, senior citizens will continue to receive their currently existing benefits from programs such as Medicaid and Medicare; but the ruling also… Read More »
Will Medicare Provide for You in Your Golden Years?
Many retirees (or soon-to-be-retirees) have been living and saving under the assumption that Medicare would pay for a bulk of their medical costs during retirement, but a recent article in the Wall Street Journal reveals that counting on Medicare may not be the safest bet anymore. According to the article, one of the most… Read More »
A Woman’s Work Is Never Done
Do you know who will take care of you when you are unable to take care of yourself? Studies show that most caregivers for aging seniors are likely to be women, and most likely to be your daughter or daughter-in-law. What this means is that unless parents have a plan for their future long… Read More »
Veteran Journalist Shares Her Personal Experiences Entering the Medicare System
Trudy Lieberman has had plenty of experience with Medicare—of course up until now most of it was from the outside looking in. As a journalist for more than 40 years specializing in insurance, health care, health care financing and long-term care, one would think that when the time came this year for her to… Read More »