Rex and Cheri have the answers. Listen here. Insurance Talk — Learn About the Affordable Care Act Cheri Martinen: You’re listening to Insurance Talk with Cheri Martinen and Rex Lesueur. We’re the father-daughter team from Bancorp Insurance located in beautiful Central Oregon. We are here today to talk about health insurance. We’ve talked about Medicare […]
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What you need to know about the NEW Medicare cards
April 2018 brings the new Medicare Cards There have been murmurs of new Medicare cards on the horizon. We’re here to tell you it’s true. This year in an effort to fight fraud and identity theft, CMS is issuing new Medicare cards to consumers. Unlike the old cards, that have for years displayed the Social […]
Is Your Medical Transportation Services Subscription Obsolete?
The answer is maybe. Central Oregonians are currently forced to purchase multiple memberships offering emergency air and ground transportation services to ensure we are covered in case of an emergency. If a medical emergency helicopter is sent for us and we do not have that company’s membership, we are left paying the cost that […]
Department of Health & Human Services number used in SCAMS
1-800-447-8477 This is the number to the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General, better recognized as HHS OIG. Generally an individual would use this number to contact the organization about fraud or waste in any of the Health & Human Services ( HHS ) programs. Such as Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, etc. […]
Trump did away with Obamacare… No, not really.
The Affordable Care Act is still in effect, and the coverage options, financial help, and consumer protections the law created are still available to you. The U.S. Congress has started working on legislation that would end many parts of the law, but nothing is final. Many proposals for changing the law are still in the […]
Make sure you get all of your tax refund this year.
Okay, so you missed the deadline for health insurance in December– What now? Well, you have some options still! In our current market system you as an individual have until January 15th to come in and enroll with us to be covered fully by February 2017. There is only ONE OTHER opportunity to register […]