Key Issues that Practitioners Need to Know About Medicare Webinar

• Understand who is eligible for Medicare
• Determine whether an individual will have to pay a surtax for Medicare Part B and Part D coverage
• Ascertain whether private or spousal insurance options are preferable to Medicare

• Eligibility for Medicare
• How to apply for  Medicare
• Introduction to Parts A, B, C, and D of Medicare
• Payments for Parts B and D of Medicare: the higher costs imposed on higher income beneficiaries
• Late enrollment penalties
• Medicare Advantage in lieu of original Medicare
• The Affordable Care Act’s impact on Medicare
• Current and late breaking legislative and regulatory developments