Total Benefit Solutions is proud to announce that we have teamed up with Health Partners Plans for the upcoming 2014 Medicare Open Enrollment. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements regarding the plans, choices and benefits. We are excited about this opportunity to add another quality plan choice to further our commitment to our clients in the Medicare population. .
Continue ReadingReminder to Distribute Creditable Coverage Notice
Employers who sponsor a group health plan with prescription drug benefits are required to notify their Medicare-eligible participants and beneficiaries whether the prescription drug coverage offered under their plan constitutes “creditable” or “non-creditable” coverage. This notification must be provided prior to October 15 each year. Click here to download the Medicare Part D Reminder
Continue ReadingWhat’s up with Medicare these days?
Let’s face it, even though Medicare provides health coverage for 49 million Americans, the program itself isn’t all that easy to understand. That’s why AARP Illinois State President Merri Dee and AARP Illinois staff member and Medicare expert Courtney Hedderman got together this week for a question-and-answer session with about 1,500 of our members through a tele-town hall. Here are some of the questions asked during the call and the answers. Q: I’ve heard that the new health care law makes changes to Medicare, can you explain those changes? Click here for the story on the AARP Medicare Blog
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How the ACA Helps Medicare’s Disabled Beneficiaries
The Affordable Care Act, which was passed in 2010 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012, includes numerous provisions that impact people with disabilities through expansions of Medicaid, private health insurance reforms, new care coordination programs and efforts to transition elderly and disabled populations from institutional to home and community settings. The ACA: Click here for the story on Medicare News Group
Continue ReadingMedicare: What Will Happen to Doctors’ Fees and Income Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Q:What Will Happen to Doctors’ Fees and Income Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? A: Business income has increased for doctors because many people on Medicare are now using free screenings and an annual “wellness visit” provided through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Through Oct. 6, 2011, the government said, 20.5 million people enrolled in Medicare had received the free screenings or the annual visit, which is also free. Medicare is now offering a 10 percent bonus payment on the fees charged for primary care services, and a 10 percent bonus payment to surgeons who work in areas where there are shortages of doctors. For 2013 and 2014, Medicaid payments… Read More
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Is There a List of Providers Who Have Been Excluded From Medicare Because of Fraud?
Yes. The Department of Health and Human Services and its Office of the Inspector General excluded a total of 3,131 individuals and entities from participation in federal health care programs in 2012. Click here to read the story.
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89 charged in Medicare fraud busts in 8 cities
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday. Click here for the story.
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CBO: Obama budget would cut $364 billion in Medicare spending
President Obama’s budget proposal would save the Medicare program $364 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO largely concurred with the White House’s estimates, which pegged the budget’s Medicare savings at $370 billion. Read the rest of the story here. Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicare/300497-cbo-obama-budget-would-cut-364-billion-in-medicare-spending#ixzz2Tq8qATza Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook
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Ed MacConnell & Terry Farber Esq. to speak at Arden Courts of Warminster
Questions about Medicare, Medicaid, Long Term Care and Elder Law Planning? Join us for a Q+A session with Edward T. MacConnell CBC, CHRS and Elder Law Attorney Terry Farber on May 16th 2013 at Noon. Location: Arden Courts at Warminster, 779 W County Line Road, Hatboro PA 19040 Call to reserve your seat: Sarah Gawlinski-Greenstein, (215)957-5182 . The presentation starts at 12 Noon.
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