medicare medicaid

Medicare

Part A

  • Qualification
    • Pay into it with income for 10 years or spouse of
    • 65 year and older
    • ESRD
    • Disabled
    • Blind
  • Benefit
    • no premium
    • inpatient stay
    • home health
    • SNF for 100 days max
    • hospice

Part B

  • Qualification: Part A
  • Benefit
    • outpatient visits
    • cancer screening: labs, xray
    • DME
    • pays doctors no matter where

Part D

  • Qualification
    • premium, co pay
    • penalty if not in in the beginning: premium goes up if does not join part D
  • Benefit
    • Drugs

Part C

  • Used to be secondary, outside insurance companies
  • Pay glasses, dentures, immunizations
  • aka Medicare+
  • Premium, copay