An updated and expanded edition of the top-selling consumer guide to Medicare. It explains how to choose the best plans, especially during Medicare's annual enrollment period, how to use Medicare's extensive health benefits, and changes to Medicare that are expanding what it will cover and moving care from hospitals into the home.
Medicare is the primary insurance plan for 70 million retired and disabled Americans. Understanding how Medicare works is essential to their health and well-being. However, Medicare has become more complicated—and more confusing. Get What's Yours for Medicare is the authoritative consumer Medicare guide. It includes detailed chapters on when to enroll in Medicare, how to evaluate the often-bewildering choice of Medicare insurance plans, and, most importantly, how to use Medicare to find high-quality, affordable health care. The book also explains important upcoming changes to Medicare so consumers will know what to expect.
Medicare in 2024 is far different from the program described in the first edition of Get What's Yours. The first part of this book discusses Medicare policies that affect the medical care you need now. The second part examines how Medicare is changing. These changes are part of the shift toward what is called managed care, which includes private Medicare Advantage plans. The newly updated Get What's Yours for Medicare explains managed care in detail to clarify any questions about these programs.
Get What's Yours for Medicare is the definitive guide to help you get the most out of your healthcare and ultimately alleviate the stress surrounding the complicated world of Medicare.
At a time when healthcare and medical insurance are more important than ever comes this authoritative, unbiased new volume in the acclaimed Get What’s Yours series.
Healthcare expert Philip Moeller has written a reliable, concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics. He provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. He describes the care we need, the care we don’t, and how to deal with doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. Moeller explains telemedicine and healthcare apps that have become so important during the coronavirus epidemic.
The book shares the stories of disruptive health innovators who have given us access to true health costs, cheaper prescription drugs, and low-cost care in and outside the US. You will learn how to avoid poor care, fight back against denied insurance claims and inflated bills, and use social media to connect with powerful advocates. Throughout, Get What’s Yours for Healthcare draws on stories of people who share their lessons on how to successfully navigate the healthcare system.
This invaluable guide helps people get access to the care they need at a price they can afford. It’s the book we all need now.
Even though Medicare is the backbone of health care for most seniors, few know what it covers and what it doesn't, what it costs, and when to sign up. Yet mastering Medicare could be the key to living a longer and healthier life and protecting your pocketbook at the same time.
Do you understand Medicare's parts A, B, C, and D? Which is better, Medigap or Medicare Advantage? What do you do if Medicare denies payment for a procedure that your doctor says you need? If you're still working or have a retiree health plan, how do those benefits work with Medicare? Do you know about the annual enrollment period for Medicare, or about lifetime penalties for late enrollment, or any number of other key Medicare rules?
In Get What's Yours for Medicare, retirement expert and coauthor of the bestselling Get What's Yours guide to Social Security Philip Moeller explains your Medicare choices so that you can make the right decisions for your health and wealth-now and for the future.
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In 2016, Social Security rules changed radically. Do you know how-and how these changes might apply to you? Americans have left literally billions of Social Security dollars on the table-benefits we have earned, are eligible to take, but simply aren't aware of. Fully revised and carefully updated in light of the new law, Get What's Yours is the indispensable guide to collecting the maximum Social Security benefits possible.
"Choosing when to take Social Security is one of the biggest decisions of your life. By doing it right, you can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to your lifetime income and leave more money for your spouse as well. This great book tells you how . . . and it's funny, too!" -JANE BRYANT QUINN, author of How to Make Your Money Last
"Invaluable." -GLENN RUFFENACH, The Wall Street Journal
"An indispensable and surprisingly entertaining guide for anyone who is retiring or thinking of retiring with all of the Social Security benefits they've earned." -JANE PAULEY
"Just what we need: a clear explanation of how Social Security works-and how to get the highest benefits." -Library Journal
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