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When you’re near Medicare eligibility, you get tons of mail from insurance companies. Including your current insurance company.

Your current health insurance company will suggest that you transition from its plan that you’re currently on to its Medicare plan when you enroll in Medicare.

The question is: is doing that in your best interest?

Insurance companies want to keep your business. Every company wants to keep your business.

When you enroll in Medicare, your options for health coverage become very different from what was available before you had Medicare, so in this video, we’ll go through how to evaluate whether staying with your current health insurance company after you’ve enrolled in Medicare is a good idea or not.

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​CMS released the 2022 Medicare Premium and Deductible amounts late on Friday, November 12. There were some larger increases than had been projected earlier in the year.

In this video, we’ll go through the new numbers and how they affect you.

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If you are a veteran with health care coverage through the Department of Veterans Affairs, you aren’t required to sign up for Medicare when you become eligible.

However, there are some good reasons to sign up for Medicare if you have VA coverage or Tricare for Life. In fact, the VA itself recommends that veterans with VA health care enroll in Medicare Parts A and B when they become eligible.

In this video, we’ll go through the reasons to sign up for Medicare if you have VA coverage, let you know which part of Medicare you can safely delay, and let you know about some Medicare Advantage plan options designed with VA benefits in mind.

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In this video, we’ll go through what you need to do to be prepared for the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period, which runs from October 15 through December 7.

And we’ll get that done in under 5 minutes.

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