medicare medicaid

• related: General Medicine

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