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Podcast: Life Happens
Episode: Medicare in Motion: What Texans Need to Know in 2026
Description: New Medicare Authorization Rules" It will only affect people with only Parts A and B, and people who have a Medigap, or also what's known as a supplement. Typically, in the past, when you had that plan, authorizations were just not part of it. Authorization means my doctor ordered one of the 17 items on the list, and normally, you would have just been able to say, great, I need a certain kind of wound care, I need a certain type of knee surgery. These are things that are on there. And now that has to be authorized. And it's so...