{"id":18061,"date":"2021-04-23T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18061"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:27:06","slug":"a-more-comprehensive-medicare-guidance-model-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18061","title":{"rendered":"A more comprehensive Medicare guidance model is needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over 37 percent of seniors not knowing where to start their health plan search, it is essential to have a wide range of educational and informational resources including, licensed Medicare agents, or brokers.\u00a0However, \u201cafter looking at three national, online agent plan selection tools, researchers concluded that these tools can handicap Medicare beneficiaries\u2019 ability to make an informed choice.\u201d Why? \u201cAgents are not financially incentivized to offer information on Part D and Medicare Advantage plans that are not in their contracts.\u201d Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/agent-tools-offer-information-on-43-of-medicare-advantage-plans\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17863\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance.jpg 1219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 37 percent of seniors not knowing where to start their health plan search, it is essential to have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18062,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions\/18062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}