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Does my mother qualify for home health care?
May 27, 2015 09:46 PM EST
Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven.” Send your questions to Phil. Moeller is a research fellow at the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College and co- author ...
As they lay dying: Medicare rules rob voiceless ALS patients of the ability to communicate
May 21, 2015 03:11 PM EST
Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven.” Send your questions to Phil. Moeller is a research fellow at the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College and co- author ...
Don't make this Medicare mistake: COBRA is not like employer health insurance
May 13, 2015 05:06 PM EST
Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven.” Send your questions to Phil. Moeller is a research fellow at the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College and co- author ...
Here's what you need to know about the serious backlog of Medicare appeals
May 06, 2015 02:30 PM EST
Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven.” Send your questions to Phil. Moeller is a research fellow at the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College and co- author ...
My same-sex spouse can now get my insurance, but should she?
Apr 29, 2015 04:55 PM EST
Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven.” Send your questions to Phil. Moeller is a research fellow at the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College and co- author ...
How are rising generic drug prices affecting you on Medicare?
Apr 23, 2015 04:29 PM EST
Generic drugs are supposed to be the cheap ones, right? So, what do you do when prices of generics soar? Send us your horror stories about generic drug prices and we’ll shine a spotlight on them.
Beware this Medicare gotcha when you file for Social Security
Apr 15, 2015 05:15 PM EST
Seniors are still discovering this nasty reality: filing for Social Security at 65 or older automatically enrolls you in Medicare Part A, which disallows your continued participation in a health savings account provided by your employer’s health plan.
Loony Medicare rules can turn a hospital visit into a costly adventure
Apr 08, 2015 06:50 PM EST
Whether your visit to a hospital is considered a formal admission or an observational stay is hugely important, because Medicare pays a whole lot less for observational stays. This is true even if the actual care a person receives in both situations is identical – same doctors, same procedures, same medications, same supplies, same everything.
What Medicare could do to get you lower drug prices
Apr 01, 2015 02:40 PM EST
Medicare has zillions of rules. But there's one more that columnist Philip Moeller would like to see adopted. Right now, Medicare beneficiaries are pawns in the drug pricing system, and plenty of Americans don't take the drugs they need because they can't afford them.
Who loses from a permanent Medicare doc fix?
Mar 25, 2015 05:38 PM EST
Making Sen$e Medicare columnist Phil Moeller is excited about the possibility of a bipartisan breakthrough in Congress, and on the years-long fight over the Medicare "doc fix" no less. But someone, he explains, will have to pay for the impending deal. And it's likely to be taxpayers.