My wife turns 65 next month and it's time to get her signed up for Medicare.
I thought I had successfully navigated the alphabet soup of plans (I was thinking a Plan G-High Deductible) only to find 15 different insurance companies/policies to chose from... While having a choice is good, most of these are companies I've never heard of and some are like "what does that have to do with medical??" (ex: "State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company" on the medicare.gov website)), and no where do I find anything to differentiate one insurance companies Plan 'X' policy from another.
Some companies have multiple policies such as "Wellmark BlueCross Blueshield (Preferred)" and "Wellmark BlueCross Blueshield (Standard)"... with the "preferred" being cheaper than "standard". (One company's title is the questionable "Washington National Insurance Company (SUBSTANDARD)")
Google search is worthless is all the sources only compare the alphabet plans, not the policies within a given plan (ex. Plan G).
What sources have you found to compare/chose policies within a given plan letter?
I thought I had successfully navigated the alphabet soup of plans (I was thinking a Plan G-High Deductible) only to find 15 different insurance companies/policies to chose from... While having a choice is good, most of these are companies I've never heard of and some are like "what does that have to do with medical??" (ex: "State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company" on the medicare.gov website)), and no where do I find anything to differentiate one insurance companies Plan 'X' policy from another.
Some companies have multiple policies such as "Wellmark BlueCross Blueshield (Preferred)" and "Wellmark BlueCross Blueshield (Standard)"... with the "preferred" being cheaper than "standard". (One company's title is the questionable "Washington National Insurance Company (SUBSTANDARD)")
Google search is worthless is all the sources only compare the alphabet plans, not the policies within a given plan (ex. Plan G).
What sources have you found to compare/chose policies within a given plan letter?