{"id":76168,"date":"2016-05-10T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=76168"},"modified":"2016-05-10T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:53:14","slug":"council-on-aging-to-host-medicare-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/05\/10\/council-on-aging-to-host-medicare-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Council on Aging to host Medicare event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Lieutenant Governor and the Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced the Ohio Senior Health Information Program (OSHIIP) will hold a \u201cWelcome to Medicare\u201d event in Van Wert County on Wednesday, May 18, at 6 p.m. at the Van Wert County Council on Aging, 220 Fox Road.<\/p>\n<p>The event will help new and soon-to-be beneficiaries understand the basics of Medicare and provides an opportunity for people to learn about the benefits provided by Medicare and important deadlines that must be met.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, specifics will be provided about Medicare Advantage plans, supplemental health insurance, prescription drug coverage, and financial assistance programs to help beneficiaries pay Medicare\u2019s Part B premium and prescription drug out-of-pocket expenses.<\/p>\n<p>For more information concerning this event, call the Van Wert County Council on Aging at 419.238.5011. For more information concerning Medicare, call OSHIIP at 800.686.1578 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurance.ohio.gov\">www.insurance.ohio.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Lieutenant Governor and the Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced the Ohio Senior Health Information Program (OSHIIP) will hold a \u201cWelcome to Medicare\u201d event in Van Wert County on Wednesday, May 18, at 6 p.m. at the Van Wert County Council on Aging, 220 Fox Road. The event will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 21:39:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}