Medicare For The Lazy Man Podcast
Lighthearted Medicare advice and opinions from longtime expert Douglas B. Jones, CLU, RHU. Drawn from his book: Medicare for the Lazy Man (an Amazon best seller), Doug's advice provides a simple road map to the best Medicare insurance protection available on the market today!
Episodes
Medicare Advantage Minute: The Latest Trend Changing Medicare!
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: Principal Illne...
Medicare Advantage Minute segment: 7 Things You Can Do During AEP (Annual Election Period)
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: Principal Care Management Services
ANOC has arrived! Annual Notice Of Change is the ...
Medicare Advantage Minute article entitled "Why These Unique MA Plans are Poised for Popularity!"
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: "Yearly Wellness Visit"
The category selected for a deeper dive was the one entitled "Ra...
The Fleetwood review of my newest book: "Medicare for the Lazy Man: BARE BONES" is a dire warning that it was written by (gulp) an INSURANCE AGENT! To quote the review: BEWARE!
Returning to format, we began with the Medicare Advantage Minute: BC/BS of Texas announced the cessation of sales commissions for all of their MA pl...
But first, how about our regular episode segments?
Medicare Advantage Minute: Hospitals aren't the only ones stepping back from Medicare Advantage!
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: Preventive and screening...
Medicare Advantage Minute: Judge overturns rule limiting broker payments in Medicare Advantage plans.
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: Pressure reducing support surfaces.
The podcast producer gets to ...
Medicare Advantage Minute segment: "Elevance Health Cuts MA Footprint; Cuts Stand-Alone Medicare Drug Plans"
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: Prescription Drugs - Outpatient
If you are a member of a Medicare Advantage Pla...
There are deep rumblings in the Part D prescription drug plan arena as the Feds have meddled in free market insurance market once too often. The plans are in trouble and those who need to rely on them for security are having difficulty. They need help figuring out how to arrange the most advantageous protection at the best available cost. ...
Medicare Advantage Minute: UHC shareholders drop their legal efforts to force management to operate in a more transparent manner.
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: Pneumococcal Shots
Article: 7 Secrets To Get Good Customer Service By Phone
Fin...
Long-time client Ken has a need for life insurance but prefers to deal with an agent he knows. I suggested he visit MedicareForTheLazyMan.com to try the search and apply tool behind the "LIFE INSURANCE" button.
I think he would say it was an effective way to accomplish is task!
In the "Medicare Advantage Minute" segment it seems that United Healt...
In the Medicare Advantage Minute we learn a little something about the nation's largest provider of drugs to long term care facilities: CVS Omnicare. They seem to have defrauded themselves right into a $1 billion federal fine.
A very short "Your Medicare Benefits 2025" tells us how Medicare might handle charges for patient lifts.
As of this reco...
Johns Hopkins made the final break with United Healthcare provider networks: Medicare Advantage Minute
How about Pancreas Transplants? That is today's subject in our segment: Your Medicare Benefits 2025
Who has been given credit for shutting down a $10 billion Medicare fraud scheme having to do with skin substitutes? Why, everyone's fav...
Medicare Advantage Minute: A reliable new study indicates that there is a growing level of dissatisfaction with MA plans.
Your Medicare Benefits 2025: Pain Management is the subject for this episode.
Finally, we present a list of sources of assistance with Medicare information and enrollment.
Contact me at: DBJ@MLMMai...
What small North Carolina Medicare Advantage plan is having to pony up a big fine? Find out in the "Medicare Advantage Minute" segment where we learn that this local MA plan has admitted to fraudulent enrollments and identity theft.
No wonder my opinion of these plans is that they constitute criminal conspiracies!
In the "Your Medicare Benefits 2...
What happens that is so wonderful when a MA plan dies? In the "Medicare Advantage Minute" we learn that insured people are given a free pass to purchase any other plan available; including Medicare supplement plans which can be had without Medical underwriting. This means, one can acquire the finest, most secure prot...
SPECIAL EPISODE:
Prior authorization causes misery in Medicare Advantage plans.
How concerned should freedom lovers be when the government delivers that same troublesome process to Original Medicare?
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...Insurers pull Medicare Advantage plans as profit pressures mount: This from the "Medicare Advantage Minute"
In the "Your Medicare Benefits 2025" we learn how Medicare is likely to cover Outpatient hospital services.
Friend of the podcase, Steve sent an article addressing "Targeted Medicare Cuts" and how they can save money while reducing risk.
We start off with the Medicare Advantage Minute: "The Great Medicare Advantage Contraction Appears Set to Continue!"
Then, in the "Your Medicare Benefits" segment we learn how Medicare is likely to cover "Other Transplants. These are not organ transplants, but might include stem cells, bone morrow and corneas.
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The first report today is entitled: "Medicare Advantage Legislation in Congress - Five Bills to Know!" That is today's Medicare Advantage Minute segment!
The "Your Medicare Advantage 2025" reading tells us how Medicare is likely to cover Ostomy supplies.
United ...
"Civil Monetary Penalties for MA and Drug Plans Are Rising, According to Government Figures" - Medicare Advantage Minute.
Osteoporosis Drugs - the subject of Your Medicare Benefits 2025.
And finally, "What to Know About Rabies", an in depth look at the state of risks and treatments of rabies in the new millennium.
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