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Today we received a call from a man in Louisiana looking to replace his Medicare Supplement. He was in decent health overall but he had some health conditions with his heart that he had experienced over the past few years. Due to the heart condition there were not any Medicare Supplement Plans that would accept him (except for a guaranteed issue Medicare Supplement).

Recently we had a client who had an Aetna Part D plan through our organization. It was May and Aetna only had received January’s premium, so they sent our client a letter stating that his Part D Drug Plan was going to be cancelling. Ended up he was sending his premium to the wrong company and none of his checks were being cashed.

Many people tend to review their Medicare Supplemental Insurance during the Annual Election Period when they are looking at their drug plans, but what a lot of people don't know is that these plans can be reviewed anytime throughout the year. We received a quote request last week where an a couple in Oregon was able to save over $2,500 a year by just looking to see what Medicare Supplement Rates were available.

In brief this article will cover some of the concerns seniors have when their doctor has not heard about their Medicare Supplement Insurance Company. A perfect example would be when....

Yesterday, I had a couple from Katy, Texas call me that had Medicare Supplement Plan N's with one of the Mutual of Omaha companies. They had the policy for several years and just received a $50 rate increase per month on both of their policies. Needless to say they were not happy with their Medicare Supplement Rates and wanted to know what they could do to replace the policy prior to November 1, 2012 when the rate increase took effect.

Medicare is a health insurance program that was established in 1965. There are several parts of Medicare (A, B, C, D) which cover different procedures in the health insurance arena.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released information pertaining to how many plans will and will not be returning to the Medicare Advantage Market. It appears that this year over 1.7 million seniors are being dis-enrolled from their current MA plan but only 393,819 people will not be offered another plan by their carrier.

We are developing this blog to provide our followers with useful information dealing with Medicare and Medicare Supplements. Our website has been up for several years with 1,000s of unique clicks each month so we felt it necessary to setup a weekly resource area where unique situations or suggestions can be posted.