Does Medicare Have a Flex Card for Seniors?
A flex card is a debit card beneficiaries can use to purchase medical items and equipment. The cards are typically associated with flexible spending accounts and are available to health plans throughout the country. Insurance companies issue these cards on specific plans only. Moreover, each card has a different spending limit. The flex card benefit […]
Aging Life Care Managers Can Be a ‘Godsend’ for Families
Kristin Martinelli began her workday at 7:30 a.m. on a recent Monday, completing an online Medicaid recertification form for a client in a nursing home in Austin, Texas. Next, she drove to meet an 85-year-old and her daughter, who had come in from out of town. The older woman had “pretty advanced dementia” and was […]