National Retiree Legislative Network September 9, 2024 2:36 pm Email Contact Beginning in January 2025, Medicare beneficiaries with Part D can opt in for the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan (MPPP). Medicare Part D enrollees and Medicare Advantage (MA) plans enrollees with frug coverage will have the option to spread out the costs of their prescription drugs over the calendar year. This …
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Read Your Medicare Notice of Change When Received Medicare’s Open Enrollment Oct. 15 – Dec. 5. National Retiree Legislative Network September 2, 2024 8:27 pm Email Contact If you are on Medicare, you’ll be getting one or two Annual Notice of Change letters in your mail or email this September about your 2025 coverage and costs. This information is important …
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Major Benefit Coming for Medicare Part D Beginning in January 2025, Medicare Part D prescription drug plans must cap out-of-pocket spending for drugs at $2,000 per person per year. However, do not think that’s an all-in cost for the year.There are four areas of costs in Part D plans and Medicare Advantage plans with drug coverage and you may see …
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The annual Medicare Enrollment period, October 15 – December 7, is when seniors with traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage can shop for a better value in their medical and prescription drugs plans and change their coverage for the next year. People in traditional Medicare can use the open enrollment period to find and enroll in a Medicare supplement plan (Medigap) …
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The Choose Medicare Act (H.R.8207 and S.4231) was introduced on June 1. If enacted the legislation would cap Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket costs at $6,700 per year starting in 2026. The bill would also create a Medicare Part E plan open to people of any age. On February 1, 2017, the NRLN published a whitepaper: Medicare Out-of-Pocket Health Cost Limits – The …
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Medicare Direct Contracting: A Threat to Seniors and to Medicare’s Future
by hotandmobileREAD Dr. Rogers’ testimony by clicking here. DIRECT CONTRACTING THREATENS MEDICARE’S FUTURE In his NRLN President’s message, Bill Kadereit requested reading the transcript of testimony presented on February 2 to a Senate Subcommittee by Dr. Susan Rogers, MD, on Medicare Direct Contracting: A Threat to Seniors and to Medicare’s Future. Click here to read the transcript. Dr. Rogers began her …
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