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Insurance Victory For Quincy Retirees |
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JANUARY 2005
- Two-Year Medicare Reimbursement - Quincy retirees have won an exceptional insurance benefit. All
eligible retirees, who are insured under one of the city's Medicare
carve-out plans, such as the Harvard Pilgrim PPO, received a 75%
reimbursement of their Medicare Part B premiums this past October. An
individual entitled to a full 12-month reimbursement, received a check
for $563.85. The check was for Fiscal 04 (7/01/03 to 6/30/04).
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Update: Medicare Subsidy To State And Local Governments For Rx Drug Coverage |
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JANUARY 2005
- Both public and private employers have been pushing hard for the
federal government to finalize its rules on how it will pay them a
subsidy for the cost of providing prescription drug coverage to their
retirees. Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, the federal agency responsible for the subsidy program, have
announced that they are proceeding "as quickly as possible" to meet the
demand.
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Feds Delay Discrimination Of Medicare Retirees By Private Employers |
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NOVEMBER 2004
- In a surprise move, final action on a federal regulation, that would
allow private employers in Mass., and elsewhere, to reduce or even
terminate health insurance benefits to its retirees once they become
eligible for Medicare, has been delayed.
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Taunton Joins Insurance Pool |
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NOVEMBER 2004
- Ludlow Also Decides to Participate - It's good to know that our bulletin receives such close scrutiny by
the readers," joked Insurance Coordinator Cheryl Stillman. "I say that
because right after the September Voice was mailed out, we got a call
from Dick Avila, an elected member of the Taunton Retirement Board.
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Medicare Part B Increase Stuns Retirees |
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NOVEMBER 2004
- Fight Continues For Refund - Members, who are enrolled in Medicare, were shocked to recently learn
that they will soon suffer a 17% increase in their monthly Part B
premium. This, the largest increase in history for the federally-run
retiree insurance program, represents a dollar increase of $11.60 a
month, setting the monthly premium at $78.20.
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Update: Nursing Home Costs |
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SEPTEMBER 2004
- State's Expanded Power Repealed - Recently we reported that the state had expanded its power to recoup
its costs, under the Medicaid (Medical Assistance) Program for nursing
home care, commonly referred to as "estate recovery." Under the new
law, the state could recover its costs not only from a deceased nursing
home resident's assets, administered through the probate court, but
also those that pass outside probate. This would include property
jointly owned or with a retained life estate.
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Weston Retirees Fight Transfer To Medicare |
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SEPTEMBER 2004
- Challenge Whether Insurance Plans Satisfy 'Equal Test' - Weston retirees have challenged their town's decision to transfer the
health insurance of those, eligible for Medicare, into the federal
program's Parts A and B, along with a Medicare supplement plan and out
of the non-Medicare plans in which they had been enrolled. Currently
pending in Middlesex superior court, the lawsuit is spearheaded by a
local retiree organization known as the Weston Association of Active
and Retired Employees (AWARE).
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