We'd be broke without our Medicare advantage plan. It has been absolutely problem free great coverage. The best insurance we've ever had.
Not sure what this post is about?? Stirring the pot?

Agree!

Traditional Medicare doesn’t cover everything either. And there are drs who won’t accept any Medicare. Fortunately in The Villages drs can’t survive without Medicare

Interesting. I had a lung resection due to cancer. Had follow-up treatments with proton therapy (SBRT) four separate times over the years - latest this past March at Moffitt. Aetna Medicare Advantage paid for it.

ALOT of these plans are going to go away and many hospitals are not taking these plans either...........traditional is the only way to go for sure........at least i know they are not going to change my drs on me when they feel like it !!! That happened many times to my folks.........

BUT they slight the ones who dont want to use the Advantage plans either...........

Unless there is neurologic impairment or severe interference with ADLs, a trial of PT is almost always warranted.

Next year, under Part D, the donut hole for prescription drugs is supposed to be eliminated. I heard that there are BIG changes coming to the cost per month for traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans. The actual changes have not been leaked, but we should all know in the coming months.

those stories are actually true my parents were on the advantage plans and they changed there drs all the time towards the end......I wont go with that plan just because of that plus you cant go to alot of places either with advantge such as mayo clinic...........most hospitals and drs are actually trying to get out of the ma plans fyi

Probably not….but I do like your thinking…even if only in jest. Maybe some one at the “top” of HCFA need to be replaced by someone who would insure oversight and logical procedures and policies. Too many knee jerk decisions

"A LOT"????? How many??? What percentage of these plans???? Big ones or just Mom and Pop plans????? Where??? What states????

You see, there is "a lot" to "A LOT" :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Not just in The Villages. I cannot believe that a doctor anywhere can survive treating patients who are over 65 without accepting any Medicare.

There are too too many issues to list here. We’ve been chasing our tails for so long we don’t know where we originally wanted to go

First it was doctors who always sent you for an MRI at a company that they owned under another corporate name.

Therapists milking therapy sessions to the maximum that Medicare would pay

Nursing homes with different wings so facility and sundry expenses for private pay and VA pay could be bundled with Medicare costs

A lot of creative accounting. A lot of organizational gyrations to hide fraud and abuse.

I remember way back in the 80’s (?) when at Senate hearings testimony got uncomfortably close to opening up the nursing home industry to a deep dive investigation on how Medicare was paying non-Medicare related costs. Almost comical to see on tv how the questions were backpedaled. Almost an “aha” moment. No one seemed to want to go there. Lobbyists be dammned

We have MA BCBS.
Same coverage as MA traditional due to it being from employer.
They changed last year.

Only issue we had was with a breathing doctor husband had.
Because small office, they don’t take MA.
Reason: MA requires more paperwork.

Hmmmm

That made me think MA checks to be sure valid.
The office never forwarded all our records.

Otherwise everywhere we go it has been accepted without question.

There's a simple fix for Medicare fraud.
1st offense - $1million fine.
2nd offense - $5million fine and 5 years prison
3rd offense - Seizure of all assets and death penalty.