56,740 people in 90066, and 8,938 of them 65 and up
An estimated 56,740 people live in ZIP code 90066, and 8,938 of them are 65 or older: 15.8 percent, or about one in six. The median age is 38.2. The figures come from the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey. The 65 and older count is the sum of its age brackets, not a percentage applied to the total. About six in ten households in 90066 rent. Of the 25,279 occupied homes, 9,680 are owner occupied, or 38.3 percent. The median household income is $114,141, which means half of households earn less. If you rent and live on a fixed income, start with the programs that lower your costs, then compare plans. Extra Help cuts your Part D drug bill when your income and assets come in below its limits. If you have Medi-Cal as well as Medicare, a Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan may be open to you. Lara can check both with you in a few minutes. Of everyone 5 and older in 90066, 19.1 percent speak Spanish at home, about one in five, and 62.9 percent speak only English. Lara can run the whole review in Spanish, from the first call through the enrollment forms.
No hospital inside 90066, and four nearby in four different systems
Two of those four hospitals are in Santa Monica. Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, at 1250 16th Street, has 281 licensed beds, and Providence Saint John's Health Center, at 2121 Santa Monica Blvd, has 266. Southern California Hospital at Culver City is licensed for 268. Cedars-Sinai Marina Hospital, at 4650 Lincoln Blvd in Marina del Rey, is licensed for 103. The nearest Kaiser hospital is Kaiser Foundation Hospital West Los Angeles, licensed for 265. Unless it is an emergency, you need a Kaiser plan to be treated there. Bed numbers are the state's licensed counts as of September 2026. Each of the four strikes its own deals with plans and medical groups. A plan that covers Santa Monica UCLA may still leave out Saint John's or Cedars-Sinai Marina. The contracts are renegotiated, so a hospital can drop out of a plan you already have. That is why Lara starts with the hospital you want. Before you sign anything, she looks it up in the latest directory of every plan she offers, along with your doctors and your pharmacy. She looks again each year when the plans announce their changes.
Doctors on Venice and Washington, and the groups behind them
A primary care doctor on Venice or Washington Boulevard usually works through a medical group. A Medicare Advantage network is built on those groups, not on the name printed on the card. Two plans from one company can sign with different groups and reach different doctors. So the most useful thing to bring Lara is a list: each doctor by name, every prescription and its dose, and the pharmacy where you fill them. She runs that list against the plans and shows you which ones keep every name and which keep most. Next to them she puts the cost of a Medicare Supplement, which has no network at all.
Medicare Advantage across Los Angeles County in 2027
About 57 percent of Los Angeles County's 1.7 million Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or another Medicare health plan (CMS, May 2026). The county has 70 Medicare Advantage plans open to general enrollment in 2027, plus 54 Special Needs Plans, and 60 of the 70 charge a $0 monthly plan premium (CMS 2027 Landscape file). What varies far more is the out of pocket maximum, the most you pay in a year for covered care in network: our analysis of the same file puts the average at $2,232 and the median at $1,500, with a range from $199 to $9,850.
Lara is a licensed insurance agent. Insurance companies pay her when you enroll, so her help costs you nothing and your premium is the same with or without her.
How Lara is paidIndependent Medicare help in Mar Vista
Goulson Insurance Services Inc. is an independent insurance agency, and our agents work as licensed brokers for Mar Vista families. No single insurance company employs us or decides what we recommend, so the comparison starts with your doctors, your prescriptions and your budget. We put Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Part D plans from several carriers side by side, and you enroll only if one fits. The agency holds CA license 6020069, Lara Goulson holds CA license 0E69969, and we work in English, Spanish and Hebrew.
What Lara handles for people in 90066
Lara helps people in 90066 choose and enroll in Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare Supplements and Part D drug plans. Long term care, life insurance and final expense coverage are part of her work as well, and each one gets its own conversation, separate from your Medicare review.
Lara takes calls and texts from Mar Vista at (818) 472-5484.
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