Medicare agent for Catskill

Where Catskill residents get care

• Columbia Memorial Health, part of the Albany Med Health System. In Catskill it runs Rapid Care at 10 Grandview Avenue (518-943-9100), open seven days a week with no appointment needed, and has a women's health center in the Greene Medical Arts building at 159 Jefferson Heights. Its hospital is across the river at 71 Prospect Avenue in Hudson (518-828-7601). The system's accepted-insurance page gives Columbia Memorial Hospital its own list of participating plans, by carrier, separate from Albany Medical Center's.
• Doctors in Albany. If your doctors are in Albany, check them separately: being in the same health system does not mean the same plan contracts. The Albany Medical Center page sets out that hospital's own accepted-insurance list.

With a Medicare Advantage HMO, your primary-care doctor, your specialists, the hospital they admit to and, after a hospital stay, the rehab or nursing facility all have to be in the plan's directory for the year. Original Medicare with a Medigap policy has no network, so any provider that accepts Medicare works. Columbia Memorial has no page of its own here; I check the hospital, the Rapid Care center and each of your doctors by name in the plan's directory.

What's particular about Catskill

• Your hospital can be in another county. Catskill sees the Greene County plan list: 49 Medicare Advantage plans for 2027. Across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, Hudson, where Columbia Memorial's hospital is, is in Columbia County (48 plans). A Greene County plan has to list the Hudson hospital for it to be in network. A move out of your plan's service area, or to an address with new plan options, opens a Special Enrollment Period that runs for two full months after the move.
• Getting to appointments. Greene County Transit's Route 711 runs Monday to Friday from Catskill, with stops around the village, across the bridge to Columbia-Greene Community College, Columbia Memorial Health and the Hudson train station: eleven runs a day, the first leaving Catskill at 6 a.m. Riders 60 and over can have their fare fully subsidized after registering with the Greene County Department of Human Services (518-719-3555), and routes will go up to three-quarters of a mile off course for an added fee if you book by the end of the previous business day (Greene County Transit, 518-943-3625). The county also lists homebound medical transportation and a door-to-door shopping bus for residents 60 and over; ask the same office.
• Medigap. In New York you can buy or switch Medigap in any month without health questions. Premiums are set by region, and I check the Department of Financial Services' published rates for yours.
• Retiree and employer coverage first. State, school district and hospital retirees, and people still working at 65, have coverage that coordinates with Medicare in its own way. Whether an individual plan adds to it or cancels it comes before any comparison; NYSHIP retirees and Medicare while working past 65 cover the two most common cases.

Catskill Medicare facts for 2027

• Plans: 49 Medicare Advantage plans are sold in Greene County for 2027, and I can enroll you in 44 of them. Every 2027 plan in Greene County.
• Hospitals: which carriers' plans each one lists for 2027: Albany Medical Center.
• Social Security office: Hudson Social Security Office, which serves Columbia and Greene counties: Hudson, Chatham, Ghent, Kinderhook, Valatie, Copake and Craryville, plus Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo, Greenville, Hunter and Windham. Medicare Part A and B sign-up runs through Social Security.
• Before you choose: Medicare Advantage vs Medigap in New York · reading your 2027 Annual Notice of Change · turning-65 checklist.

How we work from Catskill

My office is in Clifton Park, and I work with Catskill residents by phone, WhatsApp and video. A first call takes about fifteen minutes: your ZIP code, your doctors and where they are, your prescriptions, and any retiree, VA or Medicaid coverage. Nothing is decided on a first call.

What a Catskill plan review covers

1. Every doctor you see, checked against each plan's current directory, including Columbia Memorial's hospital in Hudson, Rapid Care in Catskill and any doctors in Albany.
2. Prescriptions priced through each plan's formulary for the full year, at the pharmacy you actually use.
3. Retiree, employer, VA or Medicaid coverage and exactly how each option would interact with it, plus a screening for the Medicare Savings Program and Extra Help.
4. A written comparison with total yearly cost, gone through together by video or phone, and a plain statement of whether your current coverage should be left alone.

No fee for Medicare plan help. Request a review, or read the wider Medicare page for all of Greene County. Nearby: Hudson · Columbia County · Albany County.

Comparing agents? How to check any Medicare agent in New York, me included: the license lookup, the questions to ask and the disclosures to expect.

Run a business here too? Business insurance in Catskill.

We do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 10 organizations which offer 81 products in your area. Please contact Medicare.gov or 1-800-MEDICARE to get information on all of your options. 1-800-MEDICARE (TTY 1-877-486-2048) is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Insurers' legal names and home offices: carriers page.