by CDA Inc | Aug 9, 2016 | Medicare
Don’t blink or you will miss the official entry to senior citizenship: enrollment in Medicare. If you thought getting your AARP card was a declaration of old age, you were wrong. That was a declaration that you were approaching old age. Medicare enrollment makes it...
by CDA Inc | Jun 23, 2016 | Risk Management
Recent news reports about prescription drug costs have told us that, as consumers, we are essentially puppets in a marionette theater. Drugs are prescribed as a knee jerk reaction by many providers with little regard to our wallets. Pricing is increasing at rates...
by CDA Inc | Jun 17, 2016 | Group, Medicare, Risk Management
If you are responsible for the health insurance for your company and your employee base is less than twenty employees, correct Medicare enrollment is critical. When employees or dependents turn age 65 they should enroll in Medicare parts A and B. Medicare has primary...
by CDA Inc | Jun 7, 2016 | Insurance, Medicare
When most of us reach age 65 we will need to enroll in Medicare. The cost for Medicare part A is prepaid for almost all of us, but Medicare part B premiums vary based on income. The calculation for this expense is based on “modified adjusted income” from two years...
by CDA Inc | Jun 1, 2016 | Insurance, Risk Management
Problems: Consumers feel no responsibility for costs of unnecessary services and do not adequately shop for the cost of their care. Providers exercise defensive medicine to protect themselves. Insurers buy and then bury technology that could make healthcare costs more...
by CDA Inc | May 25, 2016 | Group, Insurance, Risk Management
Recently a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School looked at health data on 140,000 health care professionals with a particular focus on cancer-related deaths. Their observation was that as much as 40 percent of America’s cancer diagnoses are due to bad...
by CDA Inc | May 19, 2016 | Group, Individual, Insurance, Risk Management
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” These famous words were spoken by President John F. Kennedy during his inauguration and became the rallying cry for millions of Americans who stepped forward to improve society at the...
by CDA Inc | May 17, 2016 | Insurance, Risk Management
Our health insurance premiums increase every year and the only recourse we seem to have is to increase our deductibles and dilute our benefits. We have clients whose health insurance premiums are now larger than their mortgages. Does anyone know where this is all...
by CDA Inc | May 13, 2016 | Insurance, Risk Management
It is not uncommon that we see employee benefit bills and rosters with individuals who do not appear to be eligible for coverage. Although the addition or non-deletion of people may be innocent it can produce some unpleasant results and possible employer liability....
by CDA Inc | May 6, 2016 | Individual
Yesterday the Peachtree Corners Business Association Juniors spent the evening with the children of Rainbow Village making gifts for Mother’s Day. Whenever their schedules allow, these teenagers spend the year helping many non-profit groups with events. Yesterday’s...
