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Medicare

  • See Also
  1. Recovery Audit Contractor
  2. Affordable Care Act
  • Background
  1. U.S. nationwide health insurance program
  2. Populations covered (regardless of income)
    1. Age 65 years old and older
    2. Social Security Disability payment receivers for >=2 years or more
    3. End Stage Renal Disease
  3. Parts A and B (1965-66: Title 18 Health Insurance for the Aged of the Social Security Act)
    1. Part A: Hospital insurance
    2. Part B: Supplementary medical insurance
  4. Part C (Medicare Advantage, and prior Medicare+Choice, started 1997)
    1. Coordinated plans (e.g. Preferred provider organizations or PPOs) that may offer lower overall costs and greater services
  5. Part D (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act or MMA, 2003)
    1. Voluntary drug benefit
  • Resources
  1. Medicare Basics (CMS)
    1. https://www.medicare.gov/basics