Kevin Knauss: Health, History, Travel, Insurance
There is no abortion tourism, a term Serevino uses to trivialize the critical health care decision by a woman. Some states have increased abortion procedures, not because women want to visit Disneyland, but because their home state has banned the procedure. It also appears that Serevino is advocating for the expansion of the surveillance state. He wants as much data on women and their health care decisions as possible. It is kind of creepy.
The Paragon Health Institute report on fraud in the ACA enrollments is flawed and biased. The report does highlight the desperate need for affordable health insurance in many states that have not expanded Medicaid.
Covered California is using AI to expedite the verification process. Common documents are scanned by AI, determined valid, and then the account is updated that the requested verification has been provided. Of course, the quality of the image submitted to Covered California can play a large role in AI being able to recognize and verify it or fail the submission.
Jericho Share, a purported Health Care Sharing Ministry, fined and ordered to cease operations in California.
When the Chinese boy is taken from her and given to the Chinese woman, who claims to be the mother, Ruth Anne spirals into suicidal depression. A smart and ingenious boy, he finds a way to escape back to his home with Caleb and Ruth Anne. His return is only temporary as the sheriff returns and takes the Chinese boy back to Sacramento to live with the Chinese woman. Ruth Anne travels to Sacramento and works with an old acquaintance to secrete the boy onto a train to San Francisco and a safe environment.
The progressive cost-sharing structure rewards the plan member for persistence. The plan member continues to stay enrolled in the dental plan and is rewarded with progressively lower dental costs. The trade-off of the higher cost-share in the first couple of years is a lower monthly rate for the dental plan.
Pat and Don are a married couple. Pat is age 67 and Don is age 64. Pat retires from work and leaves the employer group plan. Pat activates Part B of Medicare. For the last filed tax year, the modified adjusted gross income for Pat and Don was $350,000. Pat will be subject to an Income Related Monthly Adjustment Amount for the Part B and Part D.
Once you leave your job and the health plan, you must enroll in Part B in order to enroll in a Medicare Supplement or Medicare Advantage plan. In this situation, enrollment can be a little confusing.
On May 2, 2024, I received an email, allegedly from Covered California, requesting I update my information for their store front program. The first clue that this was a phishing scam was that I never applied to the Covered California store front program.
Schedule 3 gathers additional credits and payments of the taxpayer. In this case, the taxpayer only has the $500 additional Premium Tax Credit to report and that goes on line 31 of form 1040.
