Elder Care ABC

As an Original Medicare beneficiary you can sign up for a free and secure online service called My Medicare.gov.  This service allows you to access your Medicare information and you have access about all of your benefits and services. First you need to register to have access.  It’s easy to register and fill out the [...]

Have you reached age 65?  Finally my husband reached the age that he could purchase a Medigap plan.  Our fingers became uncrossed as we had no major events, only a few minor ones.  We signed up for the Medigap Plan F.  So what’s a Medigap plan? Medigap is a standalone plan that covers what Medicare [...]

Several years ago I became involved with Medicare as a result of my husband’s disability and I had to learn which Medicare benefit and hopefully a Medigap plan were right for us. I spent many hours at http://medicare.gov to make the best decision for his healthcare and how much this was going to cost.

Before joining Medicare D, I had to sit down and make a list of all of my husband’s prescriptions.  I can tell you at that time, he was on 10 or maybe 11 different drugs.  I calculated an estimated retail cost of about $8,000 – $10,000 per year and that was dependent upon discontinuing a [...]