Medicare inwards New Hampshire
New Hampshire amongst states amongst lowest Advantage enrollment
Resources for New Hampshire beneficiaries
State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs) supply free, in-depth, one-on-one insurance counseling together with assist to Medicare beneficiaries, their families, friends, together with caregivers. SHIPs run inwards all l states.
In New Hampshire y'all tin send away attain SHIP at 1-866-634-9412 or online here.
Snapshot of Medicare inwards New Hampshire
Total Medicare enrollment inwards New Hampshire
In 2009 in that location were 231,444 Medicare beneficiaries inwards New Hampshire, which is 17.5 percent of its sum population. That compares amongst sixteen percent of the the States population enrolled inwards Medicare.
The states amongst the highest pct of beneficiaries are West Virginia together with Maine amongst virtually 21 percent each. Those amongst the lowest pct are Alaska (9.5 percent) together with Utah (10 percent). In raw numbers, Alaska has the to the lowest degree recipients at 69,301 together with California (which has virtually an 8th of the country’s population inside its borders) has the most at a piddling over v ane thousand thousand (13 percent of its population).
Read virtually Medicare’s opened upwards enrollment menstruum together with other of import enrollment deadlines.
Breakdown of the aged vs. disabled
Individuals who qualify past virtue of their historic menstruum solitary brand upwards fourscore percent of New Hampshire Medicare recipients. The remainder — xx percent — are on Medicare every minute the issue of a disability. Kentucky has the highest percent of Medicare recipients listed every minute disabled (28 percent), followed past Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia together with Arkansas. Hawaii has the smallest pct at 12 percent, followed past North together with South Dakota at xiv percent each.
Medicare spending per recipient
Medicare pays virtually $8,762 annually per enrollee inwards New Hampshire. Growth inwards per-enrollee spending inwards New Hampshire from 1991 to 2009 has been virtually 6.7 percent.
In damage of spending per recipient, virtually xx states pass $10,000 or to a greater extent than per recipient. (Medicare spends the most per beneficiary — $11,903 — inwards New Bailiwick of Jersey together with the to the lowest degree per enrollee — $9,576 — inwards Montana. South Carolina together with Nebraska Pb inwards per-enrollee spending increment at 7.4 percent, together with Pennsylvania‘s increment per enrollee has been the to the lowest degree at simply over v percent.
Medicare spending overall
In sum spending on Medicare, New Hampshire ranks #40 amongst $1.9 billion per year. With the largest together with smallest numbers of recipients, itʼs no surprise that California accounts for $50.6 billion of overall Medicare spending patch Alaska spends only $553 million. Total Medicare spending for all states together with the District of Columbia was $471 billion inwards 2009 (latest available data).
Medicare Advantage inwards New Hampshire
Medicare Advantage offers Americans wellness benefits through individual plans instead of through Original — or traditional — Medicare (the federal government’s fee-for-service program). These plans are ane pick for consumers who want additional benefits beyond what Original Medicare offers, but are non considered a wise pick past some consumers who are concerned that authorities spends to a greater extent than per enrollee on the individual plans than it does on its ain program.
In 2014 inwards New Hampshire, half dozen percent of all Medicare recipients chose a Medicare Advantage plan. New Hampshire ranks #49 amongst all states for insureds choosing an Advantage plan. Nationwide, thirty percent of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled inwards a Medicare Advantage program. A sum 32 percent of urban dwellers take them, compared to only xx percent of rural dwellers, probable due to less access to plans.
Minnesota is the only country where to a greater extent than than one-half (51 percent) of Medicare eligibles enrolled inwards a Medicare Advantage plan. Alaska, amongst only 22 Advantage enrollees, is the only country to take cypher percent enrolled inwards Medicare Advantage. Five to a greater extent than states take Medicare Advantage enrollment (by pct of the state’s Medicare enrollees) inwards the unmarried digits: Wyoming amongst three percent, New Hampshire amongst half dozen percent, Vermont together with Delaware (both amongst vii percent) together with Maryland squeaking inwards amongst nine percent.
Stand-alone Medicare Prescription Drug plans
New Hampshire has 132,420 inwards stand-alone prescription drug plans. The country has thirty plans amongst premiums ranging from $13 to $125 per month. That amounts to l percent of all enrollees inwards New Hampshire having a stand-alone Rx design compared to an tolerable of 47 percent citizenly. (Florida is highest amongst 52 percent.)
Medicare prescription drug coverage — called Medicare Part D — was the issue of legislation passed inwards 2003 together with signed into constabulary past President George W. Bush inwards 2006. It is a flake of a controversial computer program because it was an unfunded liability — significant that the vast bulk of costs roughshod on taxpayers — together with the constabulary too barred Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices amongst drug makers.
For those nether 65 inwards New Hampshire
Are y'all nether 65 years of age? We take data on New Hampshire wellness insurance together with the New Hampshire wellness insurance market place at our wellness insurance site.
