BJ lawsuit already paying off plenty of $$$

Benefits from the BJ healthcare lawsuit settlement are beginning to show up already even though the reinstated benefits didn’t start till Jan. 1.

Guild retiree Don Roese, who was a photographer, paid $4 for prescription pills with a value of $644.

John Olesky paid NOTHING of the $9,315.30 bill for his stress test, which showed NO abnormalities. What Medicare didn’t pay, the United Healthcare AARP Supplement secondary coverage did. Previously, Olesky would have been out a few hundred dollars.

Olesky paid $16 for $771.98 worth of four 90-day prescriptions.

The BJ pays all the medical and prescription premiums. Lawsuit beneficiaries pay only the usual Medicare Part B premium they’ve always paid since retirement.

Retired printers included in the settlement pay $10 for 90-day prescriptions but otherwise have the same medical coverage as the Guild retirees.

Fifty retirees and their spouses were named in the settlement.

The lawsuit was filed in 2009 and settled in late 2012.