Medicaid for dummies book

Manage the medicare maze from enrollment dates to plan options. What is the difference between medicare and medicaid. For the phone number of your ship, which provides free personal help with medicare and medicaid issues, go to. You can find the phone number for your ship in appendix a. In simple language, with clear stepbystep instructions, the book helps you determine how and when to enroll, avoid costly mistakes, and find a plan that is right for you and your family. Knowing the differences between medicare and medicaid isnt just for our older generation. For the phone number of your ship, which provides free personal help with medicare and medicaid issues. This booklet provides an overview of the medicare and medicaid programs and some brief information on other types of health. The goal is to provide a seamless and transparent experience to help you get the information you need to make good health care choices. In our first chapter of medicare for dummies, well go over the four parts of medicare.

It also explains how medicare fits in with other health insurance you may have. Medicare for dummies navigating the medicare maze in 2020. Benefits include physician visits, labs, surgeries. How to spot them, how to avoid them, and how to optimize your healthcare at the lowest possible cost avoid the traps series, book 2 volume 2. You may be in what some may call the sandwich generation.

Medicaid is the national safety net of health care, paying the medical costs of people in certain groups. This part is considered your outpatient medical coverage. Epsdt early periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment. This reference book describes four pivotal aspects of how the medicaid program operates who it covers, what it covers, how it is financed, and how it is administered. Were improving and modernizing the way you get medicare information. Medical coverage through medicaid includes most common forms of health care. Planning for longterm care for dummies for dummies series by carol levine mar 10, 2014.

Medicare for dummies is the practical guide you need to navigate medicare successfully and get the best of the system. Or contact your local medicaid office call medicare at 8006334227 tty 8774862048 for its phone number or go to the website that provides information about each state medicaid program. Medicare for dummies, 2nd edition 9781119293392 was previously published as. Cooperative federal and state health care coverage for. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Medicare for dummies, 3 rd edition will help you navigate the complicated, often confusing maze of the medicare system. Medicaid coverage explained about 60 million americans are covered by medicaid, a government program for lowincome people, including pregnant. It covers your stay in the hospital, a nursing facility or any inpatient care. The fast and easy way to get up to speed on medicare since the. Medicare for dummies is what you need to navigate medicare successfully and get the best out of the complex system. To get the most from medicare, you need accurate information that steers you clear of bad advice and costly pitfalls.