It's crazy season. We liken it to this visual..... We're located in Michigan so in our neck of the woods, right around October 1 each year, the squirrels just sort of become insane. They cram nuts into their mouths and bolt across the roads seemingly suicidal as we drive by. Anytime you look outside, it seems that there are a dozen in any given area scurrying around. THAT is exactly how …
Medicare
Covid-19, Coronvirus & the Medicare Transition
Covid, Covid-19, Coronavirus, Social-Distancing, Quarantine, Pandemic….. Who would have known that as we turned the page in January to the land of 2020 that these words could possibly (1) be known to us and (2) part of our “new” daily world. Since March, we’ve added several new words to our everyday vocabulary. Stress, anxiety, furlough, early retirement, bored, depression, Cobra coverage, …
Michigan Auto Insurance Changes – Careful
We've been getting a lot of e-mails and phone calls lately regarding Michigan's new auto insurance options due to hit the marketplace on July 1, 2020. Here's a sample question from a Michigan driver trying to understand what the impact could be if he should change coverage levels come July 1. "I was reading about the upcoming change in auto insurance on Mi.gov site, after a local news …
Michigan Auto Reform Laws & Medicare
What's Happening in Michigan? We're starting to pay a lot more attention to and are getting a lot more questions relating to car insurance in Michigan. Specifically, how does it relate to Michigan's auto laws and upcoming changes. If you are not a resident of Michigan (where our agency is located; thus our "back yard" is pretty darn full of questions!), this really won't apply to you. Those …
Plan B… Part B…. HELP!
Too many "B's"..... This time we're talking about Medigap Plan B. (Not Medicare's Part B). Medigap has the "alphabet soup" of plans, remember? We don't often see Plan B's but they are out there! Please take 30 minutes with us to review your plan every so often.... Here's why. We had a person call for assistance this week. She has Medigap Plan B and has been in a skilled nursing home for..... …
Growth… Helpers… Millennials & Boomers…!
As we wind down the summer, Boomer Health Group is prepping for FALL! What does Fall mean to us? Chaos. Good chaos, but chaos. The Annual Election Period opens up on October 15. It ends December 7. During that time period, there are hundreds of confused people that we help to guide to good Medicare choices. It's rewarding, it's fun, it's exhausting, and - it's coming! Also ahead of that …
Helpers Are Out There!
Check out the BLOG HERE written by my friend Cathy Sikorski! We're all just sort of our here wanting to educate and help. Cathy is a fun speaker that shares her years of estate planning (and lack there of) experience in order to help people plan ahead. …
COBRA; beware.
Wow, did we hit the "COBRA cases" last week! It was very strange, seemed we kept getting calls from people that had bad, or shall we say really no, advice about how to handle Medicare AND COBRA coverage. We had a Florida person that started COBRA last spring. All is well other than the fact that he's 69 years old and has only Medicare Part A. Gwynn coached him through going to get his Part B of …
Healthcare Peace of Mind
As many of you realize, we at Boomer Health Group do a LOT of our work virtually (i.e. over the phone - yes, the archaic PHONE!). We do a lot nationally; state to state.... So, it wasn't unusual at all to talk to a woman out west about her situation. She's turning 65, no spouse and had a cancer diagnosis a few years back and was treated at MD Anderson. When we hear that someone has a condition …
Group Medigap
People know that we're Medigap fans (in terms of the extensive coverage it provides a Medicare beneficiary). GROUP Medigap is quickly becoming one of our favorites as well! Most people aren't aware that it's out there so we have our listening ears on pretty well as we deal with new referrals to us. Here's the traditional referral to us: "I've got a business owner turning 65 and he's not sure if …