How We Work
Medicare is confusing on purpose for no one and by accident for everyone. Our job is to explain it in plain English — and to be straight with you about exactly how our articles get made.
Senior Health Guide is a privately owned informational website. We are not affiliated with the U.S. government, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), or any insurance carrier. We don't sell insurance on this site, and nothing here is a plan recommendation — our articles explain how programs and coverage work so you can ask better questions and make your own decisions.
For official plan information, enrollment, and personalized help, the authoritative sources are Medicare.gov, 1-800-MEDICARE, and your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP).
Our content starts with primary sources: Medicare.gov, CMS publications and manuals, Social Security Administration guidance, and official plan documents. We prefer the source document over someone else's summary of it.
We use AI tools to help research and draft our articles, under editorial standards we set and enforce. We tell you this plainly because you deserve to know how the content you're reading was produced.
Before publication, every article passes automated screening for quality and for compliance with the rules that govern how Medicare information may be presented. An article that fails screening does not publish — it is held back for review. No exceptions.
Every article shows its publish date, and an updated date when it changes. Medicare rules, amounts, and deadlines change every year — if an article looks stale for the current plan year, treat Medicare.gov as the tiebreaker.
Some articles include links to partner tools or services — for example, resources that help you compare prescription drug costs. We may receive compensation when you use those links. That compensation is how this site is funded.
Partner links never determine what an article says. Articles are written and screened first; a link is only attached afterward, where it's genuinely relevant to the topic. Pages with partner links say so.
If something on this site is wrong — an amount that changed, a rule we misstated, a deadline that moved — we want to know. We review every credible correction, update the article, and refresh its updated date when we do.