{"id":2315,"date":"2009-09-17T02:56:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connecticutelderlawblog.wordpress.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-09-17T02:56:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:56:52","slug":"tips-medicare-medi-gap-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/tips-medicare-medi-gap-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"TIPS: Medicare &#038; Medi-Gap\u00a0insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at your Medicare card &#8211; make sure you have coverage for both Part A (Hospital) &amp; Part B (Services).\u00a0 Some people did not enroll in Medicare B when eligible and they will be penalized should hospital or nursing home care be needed.<\/p>\n<p>Consider purchasing a supplemental insurance policy (Medi-Gap). This is a supplemental insurance policy for Medicare beneficiaries.\u00a0 This insurance fills in the \u201cgaps\u201d left by Medicare.\u00a0 The gaps are significant with high hospitalization deductibles and significant co-pays particularly in Nursing Home coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your retirment supplemental insurance includes coverage for all Medicare co-pays including day 21 through 100 <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">in a nursing home<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Do not cancel any health insurance until you have had an elder law attorney review the policy for you.\u00a0 And then think again before canceling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at your Medicare card &#8211; make sure you have coverage for both Part A (Hospital) &amp; Part B (Services).\u00a0 Some people did not enroll in Medicare B when eligible and they will be penalized should hospital or nursing home care be needed. Consider purchasing a supplemental insurance policy (Medi-Gap). This is a supplemental insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}