Medicare San Antonio Blog

• Enrollment6 min read

  What San Antonio seniors should handle before December 7

  Annual Open Enrollment closes December 7 across Bexar County. Here's the short review that catches most of the savings: your Annual Notice of Change, your drug list, and next year's network.

• Plan types7 min read

  HMO or PPO? What it means at Methodist and Baptist

  Network rules decide whether a specialist visit gets covered. A practical look at how HMO and PPO Advantage plans behave against San Antonio's biggest hospital systems.

• Prescriptions5 min read

  Why the cheapest Part D plan is usually the wrong pick

  Premium is the least important number on a drug plan. Tiers, formularies and preferred pharmacies are where the real annual cost hides for San Antonio retirees.

• Medigap6 min read

  Plan G vs. Plan N: which actually saves you money?

  Benefits are standardized statewide, so the decision comes down to premium versus copays. We run the comparison the same way we would for a client in Stone Oak or Southtown.

• Turning 658 min read

  The 65th-birthday timeline nobody explains clearly

  Seven months, one Medigap window, and one costly mistake if you're still working. A month-by-month plan for getting it right in San Antonio.

• Costly errors7 min read

  Seven Medicare mistakes we fix every year

  Missed deadlines, TV-ad enrollments and set-and-forget coverage. Most of these are permanent, and every one of them is avoidable.

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