Who lives on each side of Ventura Boulevard
Across both ZIP codes, 13,206 of the 73,637 people who live in Woodland Hills are 65 or older, or 17.9 percent. For Los Angeles County as a whole, the figure is 15.2 percent. North of the boulevard, 91367 has 8,002 people 65 or older and a median age of 39.7. Its median household income is $108,653. Only 45.4 percent of its occupied homes, 8,871 of 19,532, are owner occupied. South of the boulevard, in 91364, 5,204 people are 65 or older, which is 18.8 percent of the ZIP code. The median age is 42.8, the median household income is $132,854, and 70.9 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied. Among people 5 and older in both ZIP codes, 63.8 percent speak only English at home. Another 13.6 percent speak a language the Census counts as other Indo-European, a group that includes Persian and Armenian, and 7.9 percent speak Spanish. Every figure in this section is a 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey estimate. The 65 and older counts are totals of the survey's age brackets.
A Kaiser hospital in 91367, and two more close by
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Woodland Hills sits inside 91367, at 5601 De Soto Avenue, and is licensed for 274 beds. Being close to it tells you nothing about your coverage, because only Kaiser plans have it in network. Decide early whether you want your care at Kaiser. That one answer narrows the list of plans you can pick from. To the west, UCLA West Valley Medical Center at 7300 Medical Center Dr is licensed for 249 beds. Many people still call it West Hills Hospital, and a directory search under that old name may come up empty even when the plan covers it. To the east, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center at 18321 Clark Street is licensed for 204. All three bed counts are state licensing figures, read in September 2026. Outside Kaiser, Medicare Advantage networks run through medical groups, and one insurer can sell several plans that use different groups. So a doctor can be in network on one of its plans and out on the next. Give Lara the names of your doctors and the pharmacy you use before you choose. She checks every name, and your hospital, against each plan's current directory. For UCLA West Valley, she searches the new name.
Renting north of the boulevard, owning south of it
The median household income in 91367 is near $110,000, and more than half of its households rent. Most Medicare advice assumes a renter is watching every dollar, and that may not describe you. Without a house to protect, one argument for paying more each month for a Medicare Supplement goes away. And if your income could absorb a costly year, the out of pocket maximum on a Medicare Advantage plan is less of a threat. What usually decides it is your doctors and how much of the year you spend away from Los Angeles. A Supplement follows you anywhere that takes Medicare. An Advantage plan is tied to its network and its service area, which counts if you travel often or might move. Lara asks about both before she gets to premiums. In 91364, seven in ten homes are owner occupied. If you own, there is one more question to think through: how a home is treated under Medi-Cal's rules if long term care is ever needed. Lara can help with long term care coverage as well, but she keeps that conversation apart from your Medicare plan review.
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 Woodland Hills
Goulson Insurance Services Inc. is an independent insurance agency, and our agents work as licensed brokers for Woodland Hills 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 does in 91367 and 91364
Lara goes through Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Part D plans with you, then handles the enrollment for the one you pick. If the plan denies a claim later, she gets on the line with you and the plan. She does the same when a bill comes out wrong or a doctor's office has to be called. She also sells long term care, life insurance and final expense coverage, each in its own conversation and never as part of a Medicare review.
Start with the Kaiser question. Lara answers calls and texts at (818) 472-5484.
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