[Jackie07]

Found an old posting of mine in the ‘Getting HOSED by my health plan – anyone else?’ thread started by StephN in 2011http://her2support.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=49351&highlight=medicare+advantag e+plan
“I searched my e-mail files and found a message from Medicare. The questionnaire I was supposed to fill out did include an option for 'other. Because there wasn't enough 'visual ques', I had thought Medicare did not cover my brain tumor and breast cancer. [Coupled with the fact that none of my oncologists (surgical, medical, radiation) were listed as providers of Medicare.]

Reading the book [Medicare & You] again, I found that the two plans - Medicare + supplemental plan and the MedicareAdvantageplan are just like the other medical insurance choices: either a Non-HMO or a HMO/PPO.

The MedicareAdvantageplan is pretty much the Medicare version of HMO/PPO. I'm sticking to my HMO because it's a huge medical facility and it has saved my life several times. The insurance concern was never an issue here. The neurosurgeon who had seen me 15 days before the surgery in June, 1990 had even told me [before my insurance issue was resolved -> a special contract was eventually made] to go to the emergency room if I began to experience certain symptoms.”