The Best Way to Win an Insurance Appeal
The punchline is, “Not to have to do one.”
We’ve posted before on Medicare insurance appeals for Part A/B, Medicare Advantage, and Part D. We’ve even posted on doing battle with insurance companies. The fact is, insurance appeals are time consuming and can feel like doing battle. If you can avoid one, why wouldn’t you? How [...]
Two Tools for Getting You and Your Parent Organized
If you’re like many of us who are helping with our parent’s care, managing our own lives and possibly those of our children, anything that can save time, minimize effort and reduce the chance of a regrettable error is something worth considering. I ran across these, as with most things, while looking for something else. [...]
Talking About Money With Mom & Dad
According to a study quoted by Kiplinger’s Magazine, “Nearly 50% of senior citizens told a recent survey that they’ve never had a serious discussion about their financial situation with their adult children.” That shouldn’t be surprising for most people. Americans don’t like to talk about money, even with family. And no matter how old, their [...]
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
We all want the best healthcare that money can buy, but what, if anything, are we doing about it? The one factor that can probably increase your odds of getting the best is you. After all, who will look out for you better than you?
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S. Department of Health [...]
Six Things Every Family Needs
One thing I’m learning is that many of the things that apply to seniors, applies to me at a much younger age as well. In a recent issue of Money magazine, there’s an article entitled, “Keeping wealth in the family” that uses a couple who are in their early 40s to discuss the right documents [...]
Top Ten Things for Caregivers to Start Doing for the New Year
Today’s Caregiver Magazine online has a good set of tips for caregivers to help get a little more organized for the new year. It looks like a good list of new years resolutions.
Some of the great tips include keeping complete records of medicines/interactions, doctor appointments and medical information… which is a better way of saying [...]