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Choosing Medicare Coverage? Look beyond the monthly premium - Rollins School of Public Health
With about 10,000 people each day turning age 65, most are faced with a very consequential decision about their healthcare coverage. The choices are: to enroll in either “traditional Medicare” (with a supplement plan to cover medical costs Medicare doesn’t); or the increasingly popular “Medicare Advantage option, which offers healthcare coverage (in lieu of traditional Medicare) provided by private insurers usually providing additional healthcare services at minimal extra cost. Of course, more services at minimal extra cost is an attractive lure, which explains the growth in Medicare Advantage in recent years.
But, according to this article by Ellie Pourbohloul at the Rollins School of Public Health, those contemplating Medicare coverage for the first time (usually at age 65) should be wary and fully investigate which option – traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage – is best for them. While traditional Medicare is typically accepted by almost all medical service providers, Medicare Advantage plans usually require use of providers only in their defined network. And that doesn’t always result in the best medical outcome. For more information about this, and about the research done at the Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Radiation Oncology at the Emory School of Medicine, and explaining why you should look beyond the premium, read this informative article.