GREEN BOX BLOG
Tips for Commercial Health Insurance Open Enrollment: Making the Best Choice for 2024
Open enrollment for commercial health insurance is your chance to evaluate and adjust your healthcare coverage to fit your needs for the coming year. It’s a critical period to make decisions that can impact your finances, access to healthcare, and overall well-being....
What’s Changing for Medicare Part D in 2025? Here’s What You Need to Know
In 2025, Medicare Part D will see significant updates, designed to improve affordability, cap out-of-pocket expenses, and streamline prescription drug costs for beneficiaries. Here’s an overview of what’s coming and how these changes could impact you. 1. Out-of-Pocket...
Open Enrollment: A Golden Opportunity to Review, Organize, and Plan for Your Future
Open Enrollment is more than just a time to select a health insurance plan for the upcoming year—it’s a unique opportunity to take stock of your current situation, organize important documents, and plan for your future. By using this time wisely, you can ensure that...
Medicare Open Enrollment 2024: Tips for Making the Right Choice
Navigating Medicare Open Enrollment can be daunting due to plan changes and coverage options. It's your yearly chance to review and adjust coverage. Here are tips for maximizing the 2024 Medicare Open Enrollment period, whether you're a seasoned beneficiary or new...
Open Enrollment Tips: Key Considerations for Choosing the Right Health Insurance Plan
Open Enrollment is a crucial period each year when you can review, select, or make changes to your health insurance coverage, whether through commercial insurance or government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Selecting the right plan can impact your finances,...
How Coronavirus Affects Seniors
How Coronavirus Affects Seniors Though COVID-19 has undeniably impacted nearly everyone in the world, it has disproportionately affected seniors in more ways than one. While it’s true that coronavirus is deadlier for older adults than younger ones (particularly those...
Event Preview: How to Communicate With Your Medical Provider!
Green Box Solutions is hosting an upcoming event entitled How to Communicate with Your Medical Provider, which will be held at Northlake Mall Live 360 on March 21, 2020. But why wait until then to learn a little bit about proper patient-doctor communication for...
Advocacy and Your Loved One
Advocacy and Your Loved One Guest Post by Tiffany Marcum March 2020 After sudden bizarre verbal declarations, lack of boundary with strangers, and wandering away, my stepmother and I knew what had to be done. He lost employment due to a lack of executive function, yet...
Prescription Drug Assistance Programs: Help Your Senior Save!
Prescription drugs can be very expensive for seniors, particularly if they are on a regimen of multiple costly drugs. But did you know there are a lot of prescription drug assistance programs out there that can help you and your senior save on the cost of...
Grief and Seniors: Understanding The Basics
Grief And Seniors: Understanding The Basics Loss is a normal part of life. Seniors experience the death of loved ones, spouses, friends and others as they age – and while grief is a natural reaction to these losses, that doesn’t mean grief is innocuous, or can always...
Holiday Depression in Seniors: Signs and Symptoms
The holidays can bring many families closer together. But for a lot of people, this time of year is anything but joyful. If you’re a caregiver for a senior citizen, it’s important to know the signs and symptoms of the holiday blues in older adults. As many as 13.5% of...
Aging Safely: Falls and Medications
Aging is a natural process, but one that also comes with new challenges. Falls and medications are two of the most prominent safety concerns among older adults, but few people know how to prevent falls or medication issues from arising. Being aware of, and prepared...