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Medicare Basics:

Bust These 8 Medicare Myths

Published on Tue Nov 19, 2019

A MAC rep dispels several commonly-held myths about the insurance program. If you think the MACs are operated by CMS directly — or that Medicare only applies to those over the age of 65 — then you may have fallen victim to common myths about the Medicare program. These were the lessons from CGS Medicare’s Patsy Schwenk, who outlined some [...]
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