We started out with the Medicare Advantage Minute during which we learned that the "Final Rule" for MA and Part D drug plans for 2026 has been published.

Learn 14 (or fewer) exciting things about what the future holds for those plans.

In the "Your Medicare Benefits 2025" segment we learn exactly how Medicare would cover Kidney Disease Education. This is an awkward way of saying that Medicare will pay to educate people about the ravages of Kidney Disease.

Did you know that Massachusetts is one of only three states that is allowed to design their own Medicare supplement plans? Well, they did a really bad job of it and they don't seem to care at all.

Finally, when it comes to GLP-1 drugs fight diabetes and also happen to promote weight loss, they may not be as wonderful as hoped. Six out of 10 patients stop taking these drugs before seeing meaningful results and many health insurance companies have stopped covering them.

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The Medicare Advantage Minute segment once again illustrates the fact that very few appeals were filed by MA victims of prior authorization refusals.

However, the majority of those appeals resulted in reversals of the denials!

In "Your Medicare Benefits 2025" we learn how Medicare covers insulin, including the newly created $35 monthly out-of-pocket limit!

Moments before recording time a plea for assistance arrived from a victim of the barrage of MA plan brutality that happens to everyone who turns age 65. After hearing a radio interview he decided to emerge from hiding and take a chance on Medicare for the Lazy Man.

Finally, How can one appeal a Part D lifetime late enrollment penalty? Just listen to find out!

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In the Medicare Advantage Minute we (again) read that Dr. Oz plans to scrutinize Medicare Advantage plans to make sure they don't continue to pursue the underhanded tactics, like "upcoding" that have allowed some of them to loot the US Treasury for year after year.

In "Your Medicare Benefits 2025" the topic of the day is Inpatient Rehabilitation Care.

The rest of the episode consists of correspondence and questions from clients and soon-to-be clients.

Just what the content curator ordered!

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