7 (a perfect end date for such bellicose imagery), you actually will have the chance to do battle with Medicare insurers and possibly defeat them. It’s the place where the trenches may not move at all while the combatants whale on each other using billing codes, diagnostic sleight of hand and mind-numbing bureaucratic hand-to-hand fighting.ĭuring open enrollment season, which extends until Dec. So, strap on your body armor and try to accept that Medicare is the battlefield of old-age wellness. GOT MEDICARE QUESTIONS? Click here to ask Phil Yes, never getting sick is a nice thought. Is there some overarching truth that can guide you, and more than 45 million other 65-and-older Americans, through this rodent maze of programs and rules to make optimal use of Medicare’s truly amazing range of benefits? Moeller is a research fellow at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College and co-author of “How to Live to 100.” Follow him on Twitter or email him at now, you’ve probably heard that it’s Medicare open enrollment season. He’ll continue to keep you informed on this page, and he’s taking your questions. Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, provided an overview of what he calls “health care’s Groundhog Day” when enrollment opened last week, and he returns this week to address Medicare’s prescription program. To help readers navigate this period and their other Medicare decisions, Making Sen$e has introduced a new column, “Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven.” Editor’s Note: Open enrollment for Medicare is here – until Dec.
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