If you return to Medicare, during Open Enrollment which I believe is on right now, Medicare rules will apply. You will not be stuck with the private insurers rules.
Medicare suscriptions are filled either via a local pharmacy, and each pharmacy or chain, has it's own contracts or through Express Scripts, which has it's own contracts.
If you return to Medicare, during Open Enrollment which I believe is on right now, Medicare rules will apply. You will not be stuck with the private insurers rules.
Medicare suscriptions are filled either via a local pharmacy, and each pharmacy or chain, has it's own contracts or through Express Scripts, which has it's own contracts.
For instance I started blood glucose monitoring using Rite Aid, which had a contract with Free Style and never paid for my monitor or strips, but I moved and there is only one pharmacy and it is local, not part of a chain, and does not have a contract, so they use the cheapest Medicare approved provider, and that is Metric, even Express Scripts has their own contract.
Who is your Medicare Advantage company?United Health Care?
Unlike Medicare, Medicare Advantage programs deny reimbursement for procedures they don't approve.
As you know Medicare covers 80% and I have never had to pay a co pay. The 20% can be covered by Medigap, either private or group,
AARP has a Medigap plan.
I'm fortunate in that I have Tricare. I did have a secondary through CalPers but they upped their premium for my Plan (out of state) by 30.74% so I quit.
Wow. You do know, don't you, that all of the rules of Medicare are in their because of lobbying by AHIP. It is also the reason that we don't have Bernie's single payor, but instead a 600 page ACA.
AHIP, the Association of Health Insurance Providers, have a lot of clout in D.C., it is called campaign contributions, dark money, and twice as many lobbyists as there are Congress critters. Find me a congress critter that has the backbone to tell AHIP to get eff'ed.
My opinion as to why we don't have single payor (a one sentence change to 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq, subchapter XVIII, is Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel.
Gloria I missed you for a couple days, I too have to deal with pre-diabetes. What I found works the best for me is to exercise twice a day and bring my heart rate up at least a third for one half hour each session. I recommend the teeter free stepper, It is low impact. I will start taking metformin thanks to Thoms advice. Pot can lower your blood sugar a lot. So be careful about hypoglycemia and the munchies. My blood sugar actually went down to 39 in the seventies while experimenting with my mother's blood glucose monitor. Pot brownies! Now it likes to hang around 130 🤬. I hope this helps you a little anyway.
If you return to Medicare, during Open Enrollment which I believe is on right now, Medicare rules will apply. You will not be stuck with the private insurers rules.
Medicare suscriptions are filled either via a local pharmacy, and each pharmacy or chain, has it's own contracts or through Express Scripts, which has it's own contracts.
For instance I started blood glucose monitoring using Rite Aid, which had a contract with Free Style and never paid for my monitor or strips, but I moved and there is only one pharmacy and it is local, not part of a chain, and does not have a contract, so they use the cheapest Medicare approved provider, and that is Metric, even Express Scripts has their own contract.
Who is your Medicare Advantage company?United Health Care?
Unlike Medicare, Medicare Advantage programs deny reimbursement for procedures they don't approve.
As you know Medicare covers 80% and I have never had to pay a co pay. The 20% can be covered by Medigap, either private or group,
AARP has a Medigap plan.
I'm fortunate in that I have Tricare. I did have a secondary through CalPers but they upped their premium for my Plan (out of state) by 30.74% so I quit.
It is MEDICARE's rule.
Do you mean that when you rejoin Medicare from MA you will suffer under the same rules as your MA plan?
Yes for this rule.
Wow. You do know, don't you, that all of the rules of Medicare are in their because of lobbying by AHIP. It is also the reason that we don't have Bernie's single payor, but instead a 600 page ACA.
AHIP, the Association of Health Insurance Providers, have a lot of clout in D.C., it is called campaign contributions, dark money, and twice as many lobbyists as there are Congress critters. Find me a congress critter that has the backbone to tell AHIP to get eff'ed.
My opinion as to why we don't have single payor (a one sentence change to 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq, subchapter XVIII, is Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel.
Thanks for the info. What's that website with the donors? I forget.
opensecrets.org
Gloria I missed you for a couple days, I too have to deal with pre-diabetes. What I found works the best for me is to exercise twice a day and bring my heart rate up at least a third for one half hour each session. I recommend the teeter free stepper, It is low impact. I will start taking metformin thanks to Thoms advice. Pot can lower your blood sugar a lot. So be careful about hypoglycemia and the munchies. My blood sugar actually went down to 39 in the seventies while experimenting with my mother's blood glucose monitor. Pot brownies! Now it likes to hang around 130 🤬. I hope this helps you a little anyway.