(Also posted on IBMretiree)
I just got off the phone with E-Health and was told that buying a drug
plan through E-Health qualifies same as medical plan as basis for HRA. I
was told that this is a change from IBM last week. This is good news for
many of us because the only medical plans they offered in my state were
Humana and AARP and AARP is not on Advantage plans. I consider AARP a
political organization, I do not belong to it, and would not join as a
prerequisite to coverage. My doctor group that I have used for the last
30 years is not in the Humana network and will not accept them as
insurer. On the Humana website they do not come up in the doctor search
and my wife's doctors group is not taking new Medicare patients and is
not on the Humana site either. This frees me up to probably get our
policies from BCBS.
I asked the E-Health rep to get an email and/or a web-site posting to
verify this information stressing to her that we normally believe only
that which we get in writing.
RRM
