A-Z Index
- Information for my situation
- Children & ESRD
- Dialysis information
- Getting Medicare if you have a disability
- I have a disability
- Signing up for Medicare if you have ESRD
- Signing up for Parts A & B outside the U.S.
- Special enrollment periods if you get Extra Help
- Transplant information
- Welcome to Medicare visit
- I have End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
- I need or get Extra Help / Medicaid
- I'm outside the U.S.
- Privacy policy
- What’s a home health care plan?
- pub
- People like me
- Sign Up / Change Plans
- Getting started with Medicare
- How do I get Parts A & B?
- Apply for Medicare online
- When can I join a health or drug plan?
- Types of Medicare health plans
- Are prescription drugs covered in Medicare Advantage plans?
- Choosing primary care doctors in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Costs in MSA Plans
- Coverage options in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Doctor, provider, & hospitals in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Example MSA Plans
- How Medicare SNPs work
- Joining a Medical Savings Account plan
- MSA Plans and other coverage
- Medicare Advantage Plans
- Medicare Medical Savings Account (MSA) Plans
- Other Medicare health plans
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
- Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS)
- Qualified Medical Expenses
- Questions to ask when choosing a MSA Plan
- Questions to ask when looking for a plan
- Special Needs Plans (SNP)
- Specialists & referrals in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Things to know about Medicare Advantage Plans
- Using your Medical Savings Account for Qualified Medical Expenses that aren’t Medicare-covered Part A and Part B services
- Using your Medical Savings Account
- Who can join a MSA Plan?
- Find health & drug plans
- Check your enrollment
- Find doctors, hospitals & facilities
- Report a death
- About Us
- Your Medicare Costs
- What Medicare Covers
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) situations
- Therapy caps
- Which facility is best for my outpatient procedure?
- Is my test, item, or service covered?
- Your Medicare coverage choices
- What Part A covers
- Inpatient or outpatient hospital status affects your costs
- Assessments in skilled nursing facilities
- Choose the nursing home that meets your needs
- Choosing a nursing home
- Compare nursing home quality
- Find out about nursing homes in your area
- Health care & prescriptions in a nursing home
- Hospital care coverage in Part A
- How can I pay for nursing home care?
- How hospice works
- Information nursing homes need to admit you
- Medicare Part A coverage—hospice
- Medicare Part A coverage—nursing home care
- Medicare Part A coverage—skilled nursing facility care
- Reporting & resolving nursing home problems
- Reporting problems in a skilled nursing facility
- Returning to the community from a nursing home
- Rights & protections in a nursing home
- Visit potential nursing homes
- What are my other long-term care choices?
- What's a care plan in a nursing home?
- What's a care plan in skilled nursing facilities?
- Your rights in a skilled nursing facility
- What Part B covers
- Competitive Bidding Program & other insurance
- Competitive Bidding Program areas, equipment & supplies
- Competitive Bidding Program
- Durable medical equipment (DME)
- Getting oxygen equipment & supplies in certain situations
- Medicare’s National Mail-Order Program for diabetes testing supplies
- Power wheelchairs that require prior authorization
- Second opinions before surgery
- Should I join a clinical research study?
- Where to get supplies included in the Competitive Bidding Program
- Where to get supplies included in the Competitive Bidding Program when you travel
- What Medicare health plans cover
- Preventive & screening services
- What's not covered by Part A & Part B
- 10 Signs of a good quality home health agency
- Durable medical equipment replacement in disaster or emergency
- Getting cancer treatment in a disaster or emergency
- Getting care & drugs in disasters or emergencies
- Getting dialysis in a disaster or emergency
- Getting prescriptions in disaster or emergency
- Home health patient rights
- Medicare rules in a disaster or emergency area
- More about home health care
- Paying premiums in a disaster or emergency
- Replacing lost Medicare cards during disaster or emergency
- Seeing your doctor in a disaster or emergency
- What's a home health care plan?
- What's home health care?
- Drug Coverage (Part D)
- Supplements & Other Insurance
- Claims & Appeals
- File a complaint
- File a claim
- Check the status of a claim
- File an appeal
- Original Medicare appeals
- If you disagree with your late enrollment penalty
- Level 2 Original Medicare appeals
- Level 4 appeals
- Level 5 appeals
- Medicare health plan appeals-Level 1
- Medicare health plan appeals-Level 2
- What to know when filing an appeal
- Medicare health plan appeals
- Medicare prescription drug coverage appeals
- Special Needs Plan appeals
- Get help filing an appeal
- Your right to a fast appeal
- Your Medicare rights
- Rights & protections for everyone with Medicare
- Your rights in Original Medicare
- Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage
- Your rights in Medicare health plans
- Your rights in Medicare drug plans
- Get help with your rights & protections
- When home health agencies reduce or stop service
- Your right to access your personal health information
- Authorization to Disclose Personal Health Information
- Local Coverage Determinations (LCD) challenge
- Manage Your Health
- Forms, Help, & Resources
- Find doctors, hospitals, & providers
- Medicare forms
- Free Medicare publications
- "Medicare & You" handbook
- Mail you get about Medicare
- "Medicare & You" handbook
- Auto-Enrollment Notice
- Auto-Enrollment Retroactive Notice
- CMS Non-Renewal Action Notice
- CMS Non-Renewal Reminder
- Change Extra Help Notice
- Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative
- Deemed Status Notice
- Evidence of Coverage (EOC)
- Evidence of Coverage
- Explanation of Benefits (EOB)
- Facilitated Enrollment Notice
- Getting too many copies of the handbook?
- Initial IRMAA Determination
- LIS Choosers Notice
- LIS MSP Outreach Notice (May)
- LIS Redetermination Decision Notice
- Loss of Deemed Status Notice
- MCBS Selection Letter
- Medicare Advantage Plan Reassignment Notice
- Medicare Summary Notice
- New Medicare card
- Notice of Creditable Coverage
- Notice of Plan Termination
- Notice to Review Eligibility
- Part B & Part D IRMAA
- Plan Annual Notice of Change (ANOC)
- Plan LIS Rider
- Plan Non-Renewal Notice
- Plan marketing materials
- QHC notice
- Reassign Formulary Notice
- Reassignment Notice - Premium Increase
- Retiree Drug Subsidy Notice
- Social Security Benefit Rate Change (BRI) Notice
- Social Security LIS & MSP Outreach Notice (November)
- “Welcome to Medicare” booklet and letter (not automatically enrolled)
- “Welcome to Medicare” booklet and letter
- Medicare Premium Bill (CMS-500)
- Lost/incorrect Medicare card
- Report fraud & abuse
- Identity theft: protect yourself
- Phone numbers & websites
- Privacy practices
- Contact Medicare
- Go paperless
- Your Medicare card
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening
- Acupuncture
- Advance care planning
- Alcohol misuse screening & counseling
- Ambulance services
- Ambulatory surgical centers
- Anesthesia
- Artificial eyes & limbs
- Bariatric surgery
- Blood
- Blood processing & handling
- Blood sugar (glucose) monitors
- Blood sugar (glucose) test strips
- Bone mass measurement (bone density)
- Braces (arm, leg, back, and neck)
- Breast prostheses
- Canes
- Cardiac rehabilitation programs
- Cardiovascular disease (behavioral therapy)
- Cardiovascular disease screenings
- Cataract surgery
- Cervical & vaginal cancer screenings
- Chemotherapy
- Chiropractic services
- Chronic care management services
- Clinical research studies
- Commode chairs
- Concierge care
- Continuous passive motion (CPM) machine
- Cosmetic surgery
- Crutches
- Defibrillator (implantable automatic)
- Dental services
- Depression screenings
- Diabetes screenings
- Diabetes self-management training
- Diagnostic tests
- Dialysis (children)
- Dialysis (kidney) services & supplies
- Doctor & other health care provider services
- Durable medical equipment (DME) coverage
- EKG or ECG (electrocardiogram) screening
- Emergency department services
- Enteral nutrition supplies & equipment (feeding pump)
- Eye exams
- Federally Qualified Health Center Services
- Flu shots
- Foot care
- Foot exam
- Glaucoma tests
- Glucose control solutions
- Gym membership & fitness programs
- HIV screening
- Hearing & balance exams & hearing aids
- Hepatitis B shots
- Hepatitis C screening test
- Home health services
- Hospice & respite care
- Hospital beds
- Humidifiers
- Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy
- Incontinence supplies & adult diapers
- Infusion pumps & supplies
- Inpatient hospital care
- Insulin
- Is your test, item, or service covered?
- Kidney disease education
- Kidney transplants (adults)
- Kidney transplants (children)
- Laboratory services (clinical)
- Lancet devices & lancets
- Long-term care hospitals
- Long-term care
- Lung cancer screening
- Macular degeneration
- Mammograms
- Manual wheelchairs & power mobility devices
- Massage therapy
- Mental health care (inpatient)
- Mental health care (outpatient)
- Mental health care (partial hospitalization)
- Nebulizers & nebulizer medications
- Nursing home care
- Nutrition therapy services (medical)
- Obesity screening & counseling
- Osteoporosis drugs for women
- Ostomy supplies
- Outpatient hospital services
- Oxygen equipment & accessories
- Pancreas transplants (adults)
- Patient lifts
- Pneumococcal shots
- Prescription drugs (outpatient)
- Preventive & screening services
- Preventive visit & yearly wellness exams
- Prostate cancer screenings
- Prosthetic devices
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Radiation therapy
- Religious non-medical health care institution (RNHCI) items & services
- Rural health clinic services
- Second surgical opinions
- Sexually transmitted infections (STI) screening & counseling
- Shingles shot
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) care
- Sleep apnea & Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices & accessories
- Sleep study
- Smoking & tobacco use cessation (counseling to stop smoking or using tobacco products)
- Suction pumps
- Supplies (you use at home)
- Surgery (estimating costs)
- Surgical dressing services
- Tdap shot (tetanus, diphtheria, & pertussis shot)
- Telehealth
- Therapeutic shoes or inserts
- Traction equipment
- Transitional care management services
- Transplants (adults)
- Travel (when you need health care outside the U.S.)
- Urgently needed care
- Walkers
- X-rays
- Yearly eye exam