Start with your problem
Most families do not need a lecture. They need the next right question, the phone number that is not selling them anything, and a way to stop the paperwork from eating the room.
The brochure lied. This is what it left out.
Your plan can drop your cardiologist with one line in an October letter. An algorithm can cut your mother's rehab off on day seventeen. A box of medical supplies you never ordered can land on your porch, with a bill to Medicare behind it.
This is the book the brochures won't write, by an author who spent years inside the machine: trauma floors, home health visits, case management, clinical quality, and the desk where denials are born. Inside:
- The six-question test that tells you whether to re-shop your plan this year
- How to fight a denial, and why most appealed denials get overturned
- The $2,000 prescription cap nobody told you about, and the cash-price question that saves real money
- The porch protocol for equipment and supplies you never ordered
- The four tells that unmask every scam script, including AI voice clones
- The two free forms that spare your family the worst night of their lives
Why this page asks for trust before it asks for a sale
The Kitchen Table Kit is free and does not require an email address. If it helps, the book will make sense.
This is education, not individualized medical, legal, tax, or plan-selection advice. Rules can change by county, plan, income, and year.
The free phone numbers are on the page because families deserve help that is not paid to sell them a plan.
Read the opening
The first page of Chapter 1, free right here
The 73-year-old in Dayton opened the letter from her Medicare Advantage plan in October. Three sentences in, past the smiling stock-photo couple on the sailboat, was the line that ended her relationship with her cardiologist of nine years. Your plan will not include this provider after January 1, 2026. No reason. No appeal. No alternative listed. She called the plan. The plan told her the network had been "optimized." She asked who decided. The plan said it was a business decision.
She is one of 2.6 million Americans whose Medicare Advantage plan was terminated or restructured for 2026. She lives twelve miles from her cardiologist's office. She has atrial fibrillation. She does not drive at night. The next nearest in-network cardiologist is forty-three miles away, accepts new patients in March, and her name is on the waiting list behind 178 other people.
She did not know this could happen. The brochure didn't say.
The Free Kitchen Table Kit
Three printable pages from the book. Free. No email required. Print them for yourself, your parents, your patients, your patrons.
Librarians, SHIP counselors, senior centers: copy freely. That's what it's for.
The free phone numbers (no commissions, ever)
These numbers are free whether or not you ever buy the book. That's the point of it.
Questions families ask
- Is this book selling me a Medicare plan?
- No. Nobody earns a commission from anything in this book. It tells you on page one to call your state's free SHIP counselor before any broker.
- Is it hard to read?
- It's written in plain English at an eighth-grade reading level, on purpose. Every term is spelled out the first time it appears, and there's a full plain-English glossary in the back.
- Are the statistics trustworthy?
- Every number is cited to CMS, the HHS inspectors general, KFF, court records, or peer-reviewed research, listed at the end of every chapter. If a rule varies by state or income, the book says so instead of pretending certainty.
- I'm not 65 yet. Is this for me?
- Yes. It's written for patients of any age and for the adult children and caregivers helping them. Every chapter has a section titled "If you are not 65 yet."
About the author
Daniel Allen spent more than twenty-five years inside American healthcare: Level 1 trauma floors and emergency rooms, roughly three thousand home health visits across Los Angeles County, case management for patients caught between Medicare and Medicaid, utilization review inside the denial machine, and clinical quality auditing for one of the West Coast's largest medical groups. He holds an MBA in Management and Information Systems, the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt. He founded QMTRY, a healthcare quality and compliance consultancy. This is his first book.
When the Amazon listing is live, this spot becomes the buy button. For now, the kit is the handrail.