UPDATED: Medicare bus tour to visit Highland Hills Branch Library

by PegNews wire

The bus' purpose is to help Medicare patients understand and update their health benefits.

DALLAS — The National Medicare “Working Together for Better Health” Bus Tour will visit the Highland Hills Branch Library, from 1 to 4 p.m., Monday, Dec. 17. The tour will offer free counseling and Medicare enrollment assistance. Medicare staff will help patients review their health and drug coverage, compare their current plan with other available options, provide information about drug coverage assistance and help fill out applications and forms.

The "Working Together for Better Health" Medicare Bus Tour is visiting communities across the country helping people with Medicare make the most of their benefits.Medicare patients can review and change their health benefits during the open enrollment period, which continues through Dec. 31.

The bus tour is part of the Highland Hills Branch Library Seniors Fair, a community outreach which will also feature free food, holiday prizes and preventive health screenings.

UPDATED:

Some kind yet concerned folks related to the bus in question (not by blood) contacted us today and sent along an actual photo of the Medicare-mobile (at left). Wicked paint job.

Source: City of Dallas