your mother's situation with medicare is becoming more frequent. as medicare payments have not increased over the recent years more and more doctors are not seeing new medicare patients. unfortunately the new health insurance exchanges under the health care law are not for medicare patients. but one option your mother may want to consider is looking at available private health plans that serve medicare patients- so-called "medicare advantage" plans. the good news is that you can always stay with your traditional medicare coverage. or go back to it if the private medicare advantage options don't work for you.
my mother is currently covered by medicare but many physicians are not accepting medicare any longer. she's concerned about whether to stay on medicare upgrade her coverage or try to figure out how these exchanges work and whether she should switch. do you have any advice or suggestions?