Take Advantage Of The Medicare Advantage Enrollment Opportunities
Just about the time of the Medicare Advantage began the new era of Medicare Confusion. The program however was never about making it easier, it was about giving you some new choices in your out off pocket portion of your medicare health and hospital coverages. While it encompasses Parts A & B and replaces the combination coverage Part C which was dismantled in the late 1990′s it is by no means a piece per piece replacement plan, it is a new world of opportunity for insurance companies and a world of choices for you.
While the coverage limits are about the same in their basic form, some value added options are presented and then with the limited network of service providers narrowed even further than pre-C its as if the value added is a farce.
The only true statements about Medicare Advantage Enrollment is that the enrollment opportunity for new clients is quite easy, however all through the enrollment they keep reminding you to be sure of your choices since the procedures for changing service providers is time sensitive and fraught with new reasons to fear and loath the system that is the New Medicare. If the government is warning about bad choices, then think what that can do to an elder who dis-trusts the systems that’s hidden behind a mound of paperwork and procedures that they find hard to grasp and cope with.