Maximize Your Medicare (2014 Edition): Understanding Medicare, Protecting Your Health, and Minimizing Costs [Kindle Edition] Author: Jae W.Oh CLU® ChFC® | Language: English | ISBN:
B009P3QH32 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Maximize Your Medicare : Understanding Medicare, Protecting Your Health, and Minimizing Costs
Download books file now Maximize Your Medicare (2014 Edition): Understanding Medicare, Protecting Your Health, and Minimizing Costs [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link This is the new, updated 2014 edition of Maximize Your Medicare. When 2014 Medicare premiums and cost-sharing details are made public, this book will be updated, and you will have the current information automatically (if you accept the update). Written by nationally-recognized expert, and expert contributor on website powered by Humana, Inc, the nation's 2nd largest carrier of Medicare plans.
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This book is not affiliated with any political, social, or financial organization. The book is not affiliated with any insurance company, and the recommendations of the book are not affiliated with any financial organization. It is written to distinguish differences among the numerous alternatives that face those affected by Medicare. There is no political agenda associated with this book: it is written for the benefit of the Medicare beneficiary, their families, and their advisers, both personal and professional.
Maximize Your Medicare (2014 Edition) is updated to include important developments to Medicare. Some of them are due to Obamacare, some of them are due to modifications made by the CMS. These developments are fully explained in this new edition. The fundamental strategy and approach recommended in the book remain unchanged.
Medicare is frequently misunderstood for many reasons: confusing dates, perplexing rules, excessive advertisements. Maximize Your Medicare is intended to address these misunderstandings, so you can choose the right option for yourself. The book includes examples of real-life cases, which may be similar to the situation that you may face. The bottom line: you are not alone and the situation you face may be similar to the situation that others have faced, are facing, and will face in the future.
Maximize Your Medicare explains:
* What Medicare is
* How/when to enroll
* Your rights and options when you become eligible for Medicare
* The characteristics of Medicare Advantage and Medigap plans
* How private plans (group, Medicare Advantage, Medigap) interact with Medicare
* How prescription drug benefits work under Medicare Part D
* How to choose among employer (group) plans and private plans
Maximize Your Medicare can help you from making costly errors. It is NOT ENOUGH to simply know the basics of Medicare. The fine print, and changing situation can mean the difference between saving money, or paying out-of-pocket expenses, that may have been excessive or unnecessary, if you had the correct information. The Medicare system changes, sometimes even within a given year, and the difference can make a real difference.
Maximize Your Medicare offers tips on how to get extra benefits and shows you benefits that you may not have known existed. The book FULLY explains why your out-of-pocket expenses may be higher than you expected, and what to do to avoid them. In addition, there are special sections which describe some special groups of beneficiaries, from veterans to governmental employees to the seriously ill. Special attention is devoted to those that are part of employer-sponsored group plans.
Healthcare professionals can use this book to explain how Medicare works to the benefit of practices, and their patients. Physicians and medical facilities can help their patients, and themselves, if patients are making effective Medicare choices.
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I got this instead of the Dummy book (cuz Dummy was not yet published--due out in 6 months). This book is highly satisfying, and it gives good, specific, advice.
I next read the annual paperback manual which is put out by the Medicare people in Washington, and is free, very clearly written, and has state-specific info bound into the book as appendices, depending on which state you live in. As with any government document, it maintains a neutral point of view. My mother swears by this manual, which is mailed to Medicare participants in the fall of each year. She actually reads it. You should too. Free at www dot medicare dot gov.
In my opinion, you will need both manuals. They can each be read in 2-4 hours, since many chapters are simply not applicable.
The strength of Maximizing your Medicare is that it recommends certain plans, for example, Medigap. It also has abundant little 1/2-page case studies in what not to do.
The government annual Medicare book has great tables. One is a simple one-page flowchart showing the difference between The Medicare Part C (i.e. Advantage a.k.a. HMO/PPO options) vs. Medigap. Another is a listing of all the Medigap (a.k.a. Supplemental) plans, from F, G, etc etc (I call them the alphabet soup plans, to avoid confusing with Medicare parts A/B/C/D. The state-specific appendix shows the Satisfaction Rankings for all the different providers, such as Cigna, Aetna, Humana, etc.
Update 3-2014: I loaned this book out, but needed it again, so I bought a second copy, which happened to be the 2014 edition. Obviously, Medicare changes very slowly, and the biggest recent change was Part D (Drugs) back around 2004. However, the book was up-to-date, so you can rely on its being current. A houseguest who is turning 65 soon devoured it during her visit, and loved it.
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By D. Chambers
The universe of books that purport to give you advice about Medicare is large. The difference between this and other books about Medicare is that it's the only one that I've seen that really lays out key decision points in terms of consequences and strategies. I live near a large senior-only community, and I've heard the complaints about Medicare and a few vague stories about some of the mistakes people had made. It wasn't until I read this book that I understood what they were talking about. The amazing thing is that I'm pretty sure that people who have made and will make the mistakes that the author is describing might not even appreciate their mistakes until it's too late.
By Charles C. Park
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