by BBGAdmin | Sep 17, 2024 | Announcements, Featured, Medicare
(First things first. For those who take expensive brand name or specialty medications, make it a point to check your 2025 plan’s published formulary/covered drug list for inclusion of your brand or specialty meds when the 2025 plan information is released in...
by Tom Barrett | Jun 27, 2024 | Announcements, Featured, Medicare
Medicare and Working Past 65 – The bbg65Plus Rules of the Road 1.) IF YOU ARE COVERED BY AN EMPLOYER-SPONSORED HEALTH PLAN, BECOMING ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICARE AT AGE 65 MAY NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO ENROLL IN MEDICARE AT AGE 65. SEVERAL FACTORS DICTATE...
by Tom Barrett | Mar 21, 2024 | Medicare
About All Those Annoying Medicare Ads;A Prescription Drug Game-Changer; Gratefulness, and more… Ever Wonder About the Effectiveness of All Those Ads That Besiege Us During the Annual Enrollment Period? I don’t know about you, but my mailbox at home certainly was...
by BBGAdmin | Feb 6, 2024 | Announcements, Featured, Medicare
Understanding Your Medicare Prescription Drug Plan in 2024 For anyone enrolled in Medicare, it’s advantageous to be familiar with the various stages of prescription drug coverage. This is especially true for those taking the most expensive medications. Here’s what I...
by Tom Barrett | Oct 5, 2023 | Medicare
ANOC. It sounds like a character from STAR WARS, doesn’t it? ANOC is a Medicare acronym that stands for a plan’s ANNUAL NOTICE OF CHANGE. It’s a letter or similar document that each Medicare plan sponsor (insurance carrier) is required to send...
by Tom Barrett | Aug 16, 2023 | Medicare
As a kid growing up in Cleveland, each day for years, I very avidly consumed everything published in the sports section of the local morning newspaper. Remember those? That morning newspaper, known to most of us back then simply as “The PD”, has persevered and lives...