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President Trump recently announced that telehealth services will be expanded to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Medicare now covers telehealth and this means providers will be reimbursed the same way they are for in-person consultations. Communicating with one’s provider virtually allows patients to avoid office or hospital visits, where […]

Medicare Covers Telehealth

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Why is healthcare so expensive? One reason is due to annual healthcare waste, whether that be a failure of care delivery to overtreatment. The range of money wasted annually seems to be between $760 to $935 billion, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. The article from October states […]

Waste In Healthcare Has Risen to $760 to $935 billion ...

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Health companies Cigna and Oscar Health are combining forces to offer differentiated health solutions to small businesses. In an announcement provided by Cigna, announced an exclusive partnership to provide commercial health solutions for small business. Cigna and Oscar Partnership “Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and through […]

Cigna and Oscar Health Partner to Offer Health Solutions To ...

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Google Ascension
According to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal, Google has been collecting personal health data of millions of Americans in a partnership with Ascension – one of the country’s largest healthcare companies. Who is Ascension? Ascension Health is a faith-based, non-profit healthcare organization with over 2,600 clinics. This includes […]

Google Collecting Health Data On Millions Without Their Knowledge

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Medicare Supplement E-Apps Taking Flight
Medicare Supplement E-Apps Take Flight Paper applications are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Electronic applications, or e-Apps, are revolutionizing the insurance game.  Many carriers provide electronic applications because they pose several advantages, not only to insurance agents, but to you as a customer. One carrier that uses Medicare […]

Medicare Supplement E-Apps Take Flight

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Basic features of Medicare Supplement Plans
  What is Medicare Supplement Insurance? Medicare Supplement Plans, also known as Medigap, provide extra health insurance purchased from a private company. It covers the “gap” between what Original Medicare can and cannot pay. For instance, deductibles, co-payments, or healthcare if you travel outside the United States. Unlike Medicare Advantage […]

Basic Features of a Medicare Supplement Plan

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Empower helps retirees at Universal Studios.
DeWayne Long, the National Sales Director at Empower Brokerage, along with John Shinn, Senior Products Specialist, once again journeyed to the Orlando theme park to help educate their senior employees (aged 60+) about their Medicare options. Universal Studios insures over twenty-six thousand employees with Cigna Group Health Insurance. Of those […]

Empower Invited Back to Universal Studios

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About 36,000 retired teachers and their dependents abandoned their state-created health insurance system this year after Texas officials enacted higher deductibles and premiums. Most of the retirees who left were 65 or older and opted to choose cheaper Medicare plans elsewhere, putting the Teacher Retirement System of Texas’ health insurance […]

Thousands of Retired Teachers Leaving Their Healthcare System

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