But the new United Income's Medicare Advice free personalized shopping service and the new free What’s Covered mobile app from Medicare itself could help make things easier. United Income then tells you which types of Medicare and supplemental Medicare plans would be most suitable, why, and an estimate of your monthly premium. The Medicare 'What's Covered' AppMedicare’s What’s Covered app, available on Apple’s App Store and on Google Play, came out in late January. If you had searched ‘scan,’ you would have seen what’s covered for diagnostic, non-laboratory tests.”The staffers behind What’s Covered, Booth says, are constantly updating and improving the app’s search results based on user experiences. “This is primarily targeted to people with original Medicare and maybe Medicare Part D (the prescription drug plan) and their caregivers,” says Booth.

Source: Forbes March 03, 2019 12:00 UTC