Gotcha

Medicare Annual Enrollment starts officially tomorrow, October 15. You’ll be able to select new Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug plans through December 7. In some states you’re also able to pick up or change Medicare Supplement plans without a health check or pre-existing condition limitations.

This week hasn’t gone the way I expected. For those of us who are seniors or have seniors in our lives, that sentence carries weight. At bedtime on Monday, I got a call that my 90 year old mother had been brought to the ER. She was disoriented and not herself. We waited. Calls in the wee hours. More tests and waiting. If you’ve worked with hospitals, you know the drill. But here’s a gotcha you need to know in this situation: what’s your admission status? Medicare only p