Seven in ten households in 90291 and 90292 rent
Venice and the marina are renters' neighborhoods. Just 31.0 percent of occupied homes, 8,615 out of 27,798, are owner occupied. People 65 and older number 7,403 in Venice and Marina del Rey, 14.7 percent of the 50,306 who live here. Of those, 3,938 live in 90291, where the median age is 40.0, and 3,465 in 90292, where it is 38.7. At home, 73.2 percent of people 5 and older speak only English, and 10.2 percent speak Spanish. Lara speaks Spanish, so the comparison and the enrollment can both happen in Spanish if that is easier for you or a parent. All of these figures are 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey estimates. Each 65 and older count is a total of the survey's age brackets, not a percentage applied to the population.
Cedars-Sinai Marina on Lincoln, and the larger hospitals north and east
Cedars-Sinai Marina Hospital sits inside 90292, at 4650 Lincoln Blvd, and holds a license for 103 beds. The larger hospitals are north and east. Santa Monica has two of them. Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center at 1250 16th Street is licensed for 281 beds, and Providence Saint John's Health Center at 2121 Santa Monica Blvd for 266. In Westwood, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center at 757 Westwood Plaza is licensed for 446. East of Venice, Southern California Hospital at Culver City is licensed for 268, and Kaiser Foundation Hospital West Los Angeles, at 6041 Cadillac Ave, for 265. Unless it is an emergency, the Kaiser hospital takes only Kaiser plan members. Bed counts are from the state's hospital licensing records as of September 2026. Having a hospital on Lincoln does not mean your Medicare Advantage plan covers it. These plans work through medical groups, and the group, not the insurer's name, decides which doctors and hospitals you can use. Those group contracts come up for renegotiation, and a hospital can leave a plan's network between one year and the next. Before you enroll, Lara looks up every doctor you see by name in each plan's current directory. She checks your pharmacy too, and the hospital you would choose for a planned surgery. Plans post their changes each fall, and Lara repeats the search when they do.
Income, travel and help with costs
Median household income is $146,167 in Marina del Rey and $122,738 in Venice. If your own income is high, you may owe a surcharge on your Part B and Part D premiums. Social Security sets that surcharge from your tax return of two years earlier. Because of that lag, your first year or two of retirement can be priced on what you earned while you were still working. Retirement counts as a life changing event for this rule, which lets you ask Social Security to use your current, lower income instead. File Form SSA-44 before you treat the higher premium as permanent. If you spend months away from Venice, pick the type of coverage before you look at premiums. Original Medicare with a Medicare Supplement goes where you go. It works with any doctor or hospital in the US that takes Medicare, and some Supplement plans add a foreign travel emergency benefit. Medicare Advantage keeps most of your routine care with a medical group near home, though it covers emergencies anywhere in the US. Most households in 90291 and 90292 rent. If yours is one of them and you live on a fixed income, find out about help with costs before you compare plans. Extra Help lowers what you pay for Part D prescriptions if your income and resources are under its limits. If you have Medi-Cal as well as Medicare, a Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan may be open to you. Lara can find out in a few minutes if you qualify for either.
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 Venice
Goulson Insurance Services Inc. is an independent insurance agency, and our agents work as licensed brokers for Venice 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.
More than a Medicare comparison
Lara compares Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Part D plans for people in 90291 and 90292. She also sells life insurance, long term care and final expense coverage, and she takes those up in a separate conversation, never in your Medicare review. Once you are enrolled, she is still the one to call. When a claim is denied, she gets on the line with you and the insurance company. She does the same when a bill comes back wrong or your doctor's office needs a call.
Ask Lara about Cedars-Sinai Marina and your doctors: (818) 472-5484.
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