America's Healthcare Advocate

Ep 1913 is our Spring 2023 Pilates Show with certified Pilates instructor Dana Goodale owner of Whole Body Pilates tells us all why it's time to get off the couch, put down the potato chips and head to the gyms! Let's get in shape for summer so we can enjoy our time with friends and family. Dana reminds us the body in motion stays in motion to help you achieve better posture; strong, long, and lean muscles and improve your health. The benefits of Pilates are numerous but include improved posture, better balance, increased strength, reduced injury risk, enhanced core, improved flexibility, boosted mood and greater stamina. The practice of pilates also offers a foundation for a strong mind body connection. https://www.facebook.com/AHARadioShow https://www.americashealthcareadvocat... https://www.wholebodypilateskc.com

Join me this week as my guest Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum, former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors explains the upcoming cuts to Medicare and who is making them for 2024. Listen and learn as we separate Fact from Fiction, Starting with Social Security and including Medicare.. For a long time, the payroll taxes going in exceeded the benefits going out, so there was extra accumulation in the fund. Now, the reverse is true and the trust fund is going down. And in ten years, the CBO estimates it will hit zero. At that point, the law says that you can only pay benefits out of the trust fund, so there won't be enough money in the trust fund each year to pay full benefits. Then the law says that seniors are entitled to medical care, so they have to be cared for. But you're not allowed to reimburse doctors and hospitals unless there's money in the trust fund. There would be a train wreck like you have not seen. Learn more: https://www.americanactionforum.org/ View the video version on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/e5yfAxSy6gw

How do you find out where they should go? What’s the best fit? How do you evaluate? Today on the show Cary Hall and Senior Care Consultant Steve Kuker answer those questions and cover related topics like: Once you get into your eighties, you become frailer and it takes something very minor to make a major change in your lifestyle. It could be a fall, an illness that you just don't fully recover from and suddenly you need a lot more help than two months ago or maybe even last week. The change can come on very quickly when you have to say, okay, now that I'm not fully independent, I need some help. Can I remain independent in my home? And if so, what does that look like? Should I “age in place” and remodel the bathroom, get rid of the bathtub, and put in a walk-in tub or a zero-entry shower where someone can wheel me in on a shower chair? Another thing is what if you need personal care? Now we're looking at bringing in a home care company with non-medical, in-home assistance to help you on an hourly basis. And unfortunately, if you need help at least three days out of that seven for 3 hours for the laundry, clothing, food, and maybe help with bathing, shaving, whatever the case may be. You're looking at $300 a week, $1200 a month and that's minimal help and that may be just enough to help you stay home and avoid having to move somewhere more expensive, like $6000, $8000 to $9000 for assisted living per month, $9000 to about $15,000 a month to live in long term care, which is also known as a nursing home. If you need help, and this is only one scenario, Steve Kuker is a trusted specialist, a friend, and offers a service to can help you through this process when you need him. He also warns against using FREE Care Placement companies as they are often paid by facilities to direct people to them. Steve offers an honest, fair and unbiased service that covers Assisted Living, Long Term Care, Nursing Home Care. Home Care. Placement services, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care, Caregivers, and Facilities Contact: Steve Kuker, Senior Care Consulting, 913-945-2800 or visit seniorcareconsulting.com Steve, who is located in the Kansas City area helps people all over. He also had a special announcement: "I am now very excited and proud to announce that I am expanding the business nationwide and offering franchise opportunities and so I am so excited to speak with people who are interested in partnering with me, in operating their own business of senior care, consulting in their local market. I'm so excited and the vision of my company is to become the nation's top alternative to the free referrals services which may have a bias or are being paid for their referral, and it will be from day one." https://www.seniorcareconsulting.com/franchising Ep-1910

In this episode, we talk about health, but in a different way. Join me with guest Dan Stalp of Sandler Sales Training as we discuss your company and your sales force and how to make it healthier. Dan has an amazing #sales #training program that is for managers, owners, and salespeople. Dan will teach us how to establish a #salesforce , along with who to count on, how to empower and strengthen them, and who likely won't succeed, (but will be delighted with a salary) Our topics include: The Commission Model (because the best salespeople would never work for a salary) How important NO can be and how NO provides clarity Prospecting Habit, every day The Success Triangle (B.A.T.) Sales behavior and key performance Dan’s company is the Sandler Institute and they build #leaders, and they train people in sales. I have been to their classes and we have someone in their classes right now. Dan has 29 years of experience leading, training, and #coaching high-performance sales professionals and sales leaders. Watch our in-studio video on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast platform. Reach out to Dan: Danstalp.com 913-451-1760 [email protected] Daniel Stalp #Consulting , Inc. Kansas City & Overland Park, KS Ep-1909

Joining me are two experts from St. Lukes Health to discuss the latest advice for everyone from youth and adult athletes to travelers and the rest of us on how to stay safe and stay healthy. We discuss COVID-19 subvariant XBB1.5 and how fast it is moving across the US, as well as other flu and infection risks and prevention. My guests from St. Lukes are Tracy L. Stevens, M.D., who is a board-certified cardiologist with Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants and is on staff at Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. Stevens is the Julia Irene Kauffman Endowed Chair for Women’s Cardiovascular Health, the Ben D. McCallister, MD, Community Ambassador, and a professor of medicine at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine and Sarah E Boyd, MD our Infectious Diseases expert who is Board certified in Infectious Diseases, Member of IDSA, SHEA, HIV medicine association and has practiced at Saint Luke's North Hospital since 2007. For the "America's Healthcare Advocate In-Studio Video" version, so you can see the interview and our guests, click the YouTube link https://youtu.be/kAckywQ-OHc Also visit us at: https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/podcasts This is episode 1907 "COVID is NOT Behind Us" For more about St Lukes Health facilities, their Doctors, and more, visit: https://www.saintlukeskc.org

Join me as we discuss who qualifies for Medicare Special Needs Coverage? We will walk you through the process to justify if you have: -A Chronic Medical Condition -Are in a Nursing Home or Require Equivalent Home Healthcare. Our experts from RPS Benefits by Design are Maria Ahlers, Director of Client Services, Carolee Steele, Director of Medicare, Individual Operations and Joyce Thompson, Individual & Medicare Insurance Consultant and they are trained, certified and specialize in this specific area. If you are a caregiver, mother, daughter, or anyone who takes care of someone with special needs and is currently on Medicare or Medicaid, as soon as this April, the recipient may receive a letter, call, or email informing them they will no longer qualify for Medicaid. Medicare Advantage plans every caregiver and family member should know about and why the omnibus spending bill is going to take Medicaid benefits away from 15 million people. We will discuss why this is happening and 6.1 million of those people will qualify for an ACA policy at about $10 a month. You can call RPS Benefits By Design at 877-385-2224 or visit rpsbenefitsbydesigninc.com AHA Radio Show S19 E6

On this Multi Topica Show, I review What Happens When the FDA Approves, then CMS Dooms Biogen's Alzheimers Drug Aduhelm, and what else is affected? Moderna Success with RSV Vaccine using mRNA Technology, the same tech used in creating the Covid Vaccine The Homeless Issue: Cities & Homeless Fight. Local governments have been experimenting with a range of homeless policies, such as involuntarily removing people from the streets when they appear to be mentally ill, confiscating their belongings, and evicting homeless people from public property. The Bright Side Of 2022 (vs the negative skew and distortion of the news, politics, and social media). I bet you didn't know there was a bright side, right? Well, I'm going to surprise you because there are quite a few things that you would consider to be part of the bright side of 2022. The Real Secret of Lifelong Fulfillment. This 85-year Harvard Study of Adult Development has found that personal connections are the most important factor in the long term. You'll love what else they found. Visit healthradio.us or americashealthcareadvocate.com

I'll explain in clear and easy-to-understand language the programs, details... which you may find are complicated and convoluted on the government website, and key values offered. For example, Dental benefits up to $4,000 on a United Healthcare plan! That's remarkable because while the Medicare Advantage plans typically have maybe $1000 or $1500 dollars, they don't have $4,000 in dental benefits. C-SNP is a chronic condition program, D—SNP if you have a chronic condition, qualify for Medicaid so dual eligible. And then there's the institutional snip or I-SNP if you're in a nursing home or facility or incapacitated in some way. You may also qualify for dual eligible plan one of these plans. There are only a handful of carriers that do these. United Healthcare is probably the biggest in the marketplace that do, and they have multiple plans that they do this depending on the state that you're in. There are many questions and scenarios: like, I need to know if I qualify for a special needs program. It's my mother, my uncle, my grandmother, my father. Maybe it's my sister. If you don't have to be 65, if you're disabled, you may well qualify for one of these plans if you're on Medicaid.... that's also important to understand. That's called the dual eligible plan. That's the one where you've got Medicaid, and people are afraid almost to lose my Medicaid if I go to Medicare. No, there's a dual eligible plan that helps you get Medicare, keep your Medicaid, and enhance your benefits greatly. I urge you, if you if it's you or your caregiver or someone who needs this care, you know, someone that needs this care, maybe they're in your church or whatever the case may be, reach out to them and tell them to get this information. Details can be discussed ar RPSBenefitsByDesignInc.com or call 877-385.-2224. Ask for either Joyce or Carolee.

Some May Lose Medicaid: Join me as I discuss why this is happening and how you might be able to switch to an ACA (Affordable Care Act/Obamoa Care) policy with little or no copay! If you are a caregiver, mother, daughter, or anyone who takes care of someone with special needs and is currently on Medicare. As soon as April 2023, the Medicare recipient may receive a letter, call, or email informing them they will no longer qualify for Medicaid. But, there are some excellent options and you can find out now before there is a huge rush!

We discuss XBB1.5, a new COVID-19 variant with Janice King and Dale Winetroub, Co-Founders of Triology as we outline in detail the Issues we need to know connected to it, right now. It is highly contagious and far more transmittable than either of the other 2 versions and is on the rise across the U.S. This subvariant may be better at avoiding the immune system’s defenses, based on lab studies. due to the specific mutations, this one has acquired.