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Author : Katy Votava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : 099653685X
Dr. Katy Votava's book, Making the Most of Medicare: A Guide for Baby Boomers, takes the confusion out of making Medicare choices. It is full of tips and insider information in an easy to read workbook format.
Author : Katy Votava
Publisher : Goodcare Productions LLC
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : 0996536825
Dr. Katy's Votava's book, Making the Most of Medicare: A Guide for Baby Boomers, takes the confusion out of making Medicare choices. It is full of tips and insider information in an easy to read workbook format. Whether you are facing Medicare choices or are helping a loved one, Dr. Katy reveals how some savvy planning before you enroll in Medicare can have a significant impact on getting needed care without over spending. Even if you are already in Medicare things change rapidly and adjusting plans can bring significant cost savings and decreased hassles. This book, now in its 4th edition, helps you: Avoid paying lifelong Medicare penalties and expensive coverage gaps. Choose Medicare plans that cover specific health care needs at the best possible price and the least aggravation. Limit stress and unnecessary expenses by selecting plans that include your doctors, health services, and medications. Have access to the best medical care for you or a loved one. Save money on prescription drugs. Get your copy today and start saving your time and money!
Author : Gregory Marchildon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442662421
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This collection fills a serious gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive policy history of Medicare in Canada. Making Medicare features explorations of the experiments that predated the federal government’s decision to implement the Saskatchewan health care model, from Newfoundland’s cottage hospital system to Bennettcare in British Columbia. It also includes essays by key individuals (including health practitioners and two premiers) who played a role in the implementation of Medicare and the landmark Royal Commission on Health Services. Along with political scientists, policy specialists, medical historians, and health practitioners, this collection will appeal to anyone interested in the history and legacy of one of Canada’s most visible and centrally important institutions.
Author : Katy Votava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996536817
Katy Votava, Ph.D., RN believes that if folks had a little more information up front, they could make better decisions about their Medicare plans and make Medicare work for them. In this book, Dr. Katy introduces you to Medicare from her viewpoint with up-to-the-minute information, she explores the entire scope of Medicare, in an easy to understand style. This guide highlights the most important factors to help you plan for your Medicare transition right now. Dr. Katy also reveals how some savvy financial planning before you enroll in Medicare can have a significant impact on how much you will pay. So, even if you have a plan already, your plan and all other on the market come out with new pricing and benefits every fall. One of the most valuable tips she always tells people, "reevaluate your Medicare plan every year." In this book you will learn: The many types of Medicare When to enroll How to apply Which Medicare "parts" you will need What effects premiums How to "shop smart" for plans How to determine if your doctors take Medicare How to figure out how much of your medication costs will be covered Do's and don'ts of Medicare Where to get help After reading this guide you will know some of her secrets that will help you: Avoid paying lifelong penalties for enrolling in Medicare at the wrong time. Choose a Medicare plan that covers your specific needs at the best possible price, so you do not overpay for your Medicare as most people do. Limit hassles and unnecessary expenses by selecting plans that include your doctors, health services, and medications. Get the best medical care for you or a loved one. Save money on prescription medications.
Author : Colleen M. Flood
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780802080028
Just Medicare illustrates that legal scholars can also contribute to the issue of how to allocate scarce health resources by determining what constitutes fair processes for decision-making, and by challenging unjust processes.
Author : Patricia Barry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119296591
Medicare For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293392) was previously published as Medicare For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119079422). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. Make your way through the Medicare maze with help from For Dummies America's baby boomers are now turning 65 at the rate of about 10,000 a day. Yet very few have any idea about how Medicare works, when they should sign up, or how the program fits in with other health insurance they may have. Medicare For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides a detailed road map for navigating Medicare's often-baffling complexities and helps consumers avoid pitfalls that could otherwise cost them dearly. In plain language, the new edition explains: How to qualify for Medicare, according to your personal circumstances, including new information on the rights of people in same-sex marriages When to sign up at the time that’s right for you, to avoid lifelong late penalties How to weigh Medicare’s many options so you can be confident of making the decision that's best for you What Medicare covers and what you pay, with up-to-date details of the costs of premiums, deductibles, and copays—and how you may be able to reduce those expenses By conveying not only the basics but also how to troubleshoot problems and where to find assistance, Medicare For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you to get the most out of Medicare.
Author : Danielle Kunkle Roberts
Publisher : Roselane Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735378615
The critics are saying: "Don't make decisions about your Medicare coverage without reading this book!" #1 Best Selling Book in Less than 48-Hours After Reading This Book, You Will: ⚠ Know what Medicare pitfalls exist and how to expertly avoid them ⚠ Be ready to make the major Medicare decisions ⚠ Be knowledgeable on the costly penalties and how to steer clear Who This Book is For: ✓ New to Medicare - This book will help anyone approaching Medicare eligibility at age 65 who needs to learn the basics and is afraid of making a mistake that will result in penalties or inadequate healthcare coverage ✓ Retiring after 65 - Perhaps you have worked past age 65 and maintained employer coverage but now you are retiring and want to successfully transition from group health insurance cover to Medicare as your primary coverage. This book will show you the exact steps to take while also sidestepping unexpected (and often undeserved) late enrollment penalties. ✓ Beneficiaries Facing Indecision - Get this book if It's time for you to make a choice between a Medigap plan (Medicare supplement) and Medicare Advantage but you find yourself torn and aren't sure which route would be a better fit for you. ✓ Confused by Election Periods - Are all the various Medicare election periods making your head spin? This book carefully explains what changes and plan selections you can make during the various election periods and more importantly, what those election periods WON'T give you that you probably expect. ✓ Adult Children and Caregivers - If you find yourself in a situation where you need to help your parents make Medicare coverage decisions but have no idea how Medicare works, this book will be immensely helpful to you. Every year thousands of seniors make big mistakes during their Medicare enrollment that can result in expensive penalties and untold hours of hassle and headaches. While some of these mistakes are fixable, others can affect you for the rest of your life. In 10 Costly Medicare Mistakes, Medicare expert Danielle K. Roberts exposes the most common pitfalls that new to Medicare beneficiaries unwittingly make and shares how to expertly avoid them. As a Medicare expert and co-founder at Boomer Benefits, Danielle has spent the last 15 years helping thousands of Medicare beneficiaries learn how to navigate their entry into Medicare. Her goal has always been to make the entry into Medicare and enrollment process easier for ordinary Americans. This is no small task as most Americans spend their entire working lives having their healthcare plans chosen for them by their employers. Now suddenly they have to try to make sense of a huge national healthcare program that has 4 parts, 10 supplements, and thousands of plan options. To make matters worse, Medicare beneficiaries who get it wrong up front can find themselves paying penalties they don't deserve and being trapped in plans that don't fit their needs, lifestyle, or budget. In 10 Costly Medicare Mistakes, Danielle guides new beneficiaries through the key decisions they'll need to make at the beginning of their journey while also helping them expertly avoid the most common and costly mistakes that new beneficiaries often make.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : UOM:39015022573201
Author : Philip Moeller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501124013
A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What’s Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation’s other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money. Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees’ income and Medicare guarantees them affordable health insurance. But few people know what Medicare covers and what it doesn’t, what it costs, and when to sign up. Nor do they understand which parts of Medicare are provided by the government and how these work with private insurance plans—Medicare Advantage, drug insurance, and Medicare supplement insurance. Do you understand Medicare’s parts A, B, C, D? Which Part D drug plan is right and how do you decide? Which is better, Medigap or Medicare Advantage? What do you do if Medicare denies payment for a procedure that your doctor says you need? How do you navigate the appeals process for denied claims? 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? Health costs are the biggest unknown expense for older Americans, who are turning sixty-five at the rate of 10,000 a day. Understanding and navigating Medicare is the best way to save health care dollars and use them wisely. In Get What’s Yours for Medicare, retirement expert Philip Moeller explains how to understand all these important choices and make the right decisions for your health and wealth now—and for the future.
Author : Pell a Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0135475066
Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780698407183
A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
Author : Abdul El-Sayed,Micah Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190056629
A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingAfter languishing for decades on the fringes of political discussion, Medicare-for-All has quickly entered the mainstream debate over what to do about America's persistent healthcare problems. But for most informed Americans, this surge of public and political interest in Medicare-for-All has outpaced a strong understanding of the issues involved. This book seeks to fill this gap in our national discourse, offering an expert analysis of the policy and politics behind Medicare-for-All for theinformed American.
Author : Anne-Marie Boxall,James A. Gillespie
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1742233430
Medicine.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309288729
Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. Increasing costs strain budgets at all levels of government and threaten the solvency of Medicare, the nation's largest health insurer. At the same time, despite advances in biomedical science, medicine, and public health, health care quality remains inconsistent. In fact, underuse, misuse, and overuse of various services often put patients in danger. Many efforts to improve this situation are focused on Medicare, which mainly pays practitioners on a fee-for-service basis and hospitals on a diagnoses-related group basis, which is a fee for a group of services related to a particular diagnosis. Research has long shown that Medicare spending varies greatly in different regions of the country even when expenditures are adjusted for variation in the costs of doing business, meaning that certain regions have much higher volume and/or intensity of services than others. Further, regions that deliver more services do not appear to achieve better health outcomes than those that deliver less. Variation in Health Care Spending investigates geographic variation in health care spending and quality for Medicare beneficiaries as well as other populations, and analyzes Medicare payment policies that could encourage high-value care. This report concludes that regional differences in Medicare and commercial health care spending and use are real and persist over time. Furthermore, there is much variation within geographic areas, no matter how broadly or narrowly these areas are defined. The report recommends against adoption of a geographically based value index for Medicare payments, because the majority of health care decisions are made at the provider or health care organization level, not by geographic units. Rather, to promote high value services from all providers, Medicare and Medicaid Services should continue to test payment reforms that offer incentives to providers to share clinical data, coordinate patient care, and assume some financial risk for the care of their patients. Medicare covers more than 47 million Americans, including 39 million people age 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities. Medicare payment reform has the potential to improve health, promote efficiency in the U.S. health care system, and reorient competition in the health care market around the value of services rather than the volume of services provided. The recommendations of Variation in Health Care Spending are designed to help Medicare and Medicaid Services encourage providers to efficiently manage the full range of care for their patients, thereby increasing the value of health care in the United States.
Author : Laurence J. Kotlikoff,Philip Moeller,Paul Solman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476772295
Helps those nearing retirement make the best decisions about their Social Security benefits by detailing techniques and options like “file and suspend” and “start stop start” to maximize their benefit income for a variety of different life situations.