If you're on a Medicare Advantage plan (US), the YouTube channel TheMedicareFamily is warning that a lot of those sweet extra (non-required) benefits to those plans are going to go away with the start of calendar year 2025, so if you got a Medicare Advantage plan for, say, dental benefits and you planned on having work done, do it *now*.

She's been hinting about this for a while, and today has come out and said that there's been a change in their reimbursement from CMS, so they're going to be tightening the belts, and shedding plan features they're allowed to, and that she's not allowed to share the details until October 1st.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ALPUWupOGHE?si=IkBECxa7s-WTU_a3

Note: if you're unfamiliar with this source, she seems to mostly know what she's talking about, she represents an insurance agency that sells Medicare Advantage plans. But you probably won't like her politics much.

#medicare #TheSoCalledUSHealthCareSystem

American adults! You all now have access to a FREE, 24/7 ON DEMAND TELEHEALTH system for #COVID19 and influenza so you can get prescribed #Paxlovid or anti-flu medications, any time, day or night, that you test positive.

https://Test2Treat.org

Anyone in the US who is 18 or older can use the telehealth service to talk to a prescriber if they test positive for flu or COVID.

AND! As a special service for those who are poor, old, or a veteran, they will also ship you free COVID and flu tests if you want. Sign up in the same system.

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid #Test2Treat #Influenza #flu #TheSoCalledUSHealthCareSystem

@slashdottir Well, *yes*. That is the argument for why it should be illegal for employers to offer health insurance as a so-called bene. Everyone should be able to get affordable health insurance independently of their employer, which is why in the US everyone should be getting their health insurance on the exchanges.

#TheSoCalledUSHealthCareSystem

@vecrumba

Oh, contraire. I take it you are unfamiliar with the PBM scam? The pharmacy middlemen are *also* engaged in market manipulation that jacks up prescription drug prices.

There's *multiple* extortionate ghoulish industries involved in #theSoCalledUSHealthcareSystem

@rchusid

Hey, anybody get hospitalized in the Boston area in the last few years while insured? If you still have your EoBs from your insurance that cover your hospitalization, I could use your help.

I'm looking for 2 numbers. There's a line item for smthng like "Hospital facility fee" or "Inpatient hospital stay". There should be several numbers on that line. One will be called the "billed" and one will be the "allowed". Those are the two numbers I want, plus the year.

#theSoCalledUSHealthcareSystem

You all following healthcare satirist Dr Glaucomflecken on YouTube?

"No More Emergencies":
https://youtu.be/M8mXvH6JvnM

#TheSoCalledUSHealthCareSystem