A-Z Index
- "Welcome to Medicare" preventive visit
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening
- Acupuncture
- Advance care planning
- Air-fluidized beds
- Alcohol misuse screening & counseling
- Ambulance services
- Ambulatory surgical centers
- Anesthesia
- Artificial eyes & limbs
- Bariatric surgery
- Barium enemas
- Behavioral health integration services
- Blood
- Blood processing & handling
- Blood sugar monitors
- Blood sugar test strips
- Bone mass measurements
- Braces (arm, leg, back, and neck)
- Breast prostheses
- Canes
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Cardiovascular behavioral therapy
- Cardiovascular disease screenings
- Cervical & vaginal cancer screenings
- Chemotherapy
- Chiropractic services
- Chronic care management services
- Clinical laboratory tests
- Clinical research studies
- Cognitive assessment & care plan services
- Colonoscopies
- Commode chairs
- Concierge care
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices
- Continuous passive motion (CPM) devices
- Cosmetic surgery
- Counseling to prevent tobacco use & tobacco-caused disease
- Covered services list
- Crutches
- Defibrillators
- Dental services
- Depression screenings
- Diabetes screenings
- Diabetes self-management training
- Diagnostic laboratory tests
- Diagnostic non-laboratory tests
- Dialysis (children)
- Dialysis services & supplies
- Doctor & other health care provider services
- Durable medical equipment (DME) coverage
- EKG or ECG screenings
- Emergency department services
- Enteral nutrition supplies & equipment
- Eye exams (for diabetes)
- Eye exams (routine)
- Eyeglasses & contact lenses
- Fecal occult blood tests
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) services
- Flexible sigmoidoscopies
- Flu shots
- Foot care (for diabetes)
- Foot care (routine)
- Foot care
- Glaucoma tests
- Glucose control solutions
- Gym membership & fitness programs
- HIV screening
- Hearing & balance exams
- Hearing aids
- Hepatitis B Virus infection screenings
- Hepatitis B shots
- Hepatitis C screening test
- Home health services
- Home infusion services
- Hospice care
- Hospital beds
- Humidifiers
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Incontinence supplies & adult diapers
- Infusion pumps & supplies
- Inpatient hospital care
- Insulin
- Kidney disease education
- Kidney transplants (children)
- Kidney transplants
- Lancet devices & lancets
- Long-term care hospital services
- Long-term care
- Lung cancer screening
- Macular degeneration tests & treatment
- Mammograms
- Massage therapy
- Mental health & substance use disorder services
- Mental health care (inpatient)
- Mental health care (outpatient)
- Mental health care (partial hospitalization)
- Multi-target stool DNA tests
- Nebulizers & nebulizer medications
- Nursing home care
- Nutrition therapy services
- Obesity behavioral therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Organ transplants
- Orthopedic shoes
- Osteoporosis drugs
- Ostomy supplies
- Outpatient hospital services
- Outpatient medical & surgical services & supplies
- Oxygen equipment & accessories
- Pancreas transplants
- Patient lifts
- Physical therapy
- Pneumococcal shots
- Prescription drugs (outpatient)
- Pressure-reducing support surfaces
- Preventive & screening services
- Prostate cancer screenings
- Prosthetic devices
- Pulmonary rehabilitation programs
- Radiation therapy
- Religious non-medical health care institution (RNHCI) items & services
- Rural health clinic services
- Second surgical opinions
- Sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening & counseling
- Shingles shot
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) care
- Sleep study
- Speech-language pathology services
- Suction pumps
- Supplies
- Surgery
- Surgical dressing services
- Tdap shot (tetanus, diphtheria, & pertussis shot)
- Telehealth
- Therapeutic continuous glucose monitors
- Therapeutic shoes & inserts
- Traction equipment
- Transitional Care Management Services
- Travel (when you need health care outside the U.S.)
- Urgently needed care
- Walkers
- Wheelchairs & scooters
- X-rays
- Yearly "Wellness" visits
- Compare Original Medicare & Medicare Advantage [DRAFT]
- Reporting Medicare fraud & abuse
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Sign up/change plans
- Find doctors, hospitals & facilities
- Report a death
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Types of Medicare health plans
- Choosing a MSA Plan (questions to ask)
- 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
- How Medicare SNPs work
- Joining a Medical Savings Account plan
- Looking for a plan (questions to ask)
- MSA Plans and other coverage
- Medicare Advantage Plans (things to know)
- Medicare Advantage Plans
- Medicare Medical Savings Account (MSA) Plans
- Medicare Medical Savings Account (MSA) plan examples
- Medicare health plans (other than MA & MSA)
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
- Prescription drug coverage in Medicare Advantage plans
- Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS)
- Qualified Medical Expenses
- Special Needs Plans (SNP)
- Specialists & referrals in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Using your Medical Savings Account
- PACE
- Rules for Medicare health plans
- Joining a health or drug plan
- When can I join a health or drug plan?
- Special circumstances (Special Enrollment Periods)
- Getting Medicare when you retire [DRAFT]
- How to drop Part A & Part B
- Information for my situation
- Parts of Medicare [DRAFT]
- Your Medicare Card [DRAFT]
- Your coverage options
- Joining a plan [DRAFT]
- Sign up
- What does Medicare cost? [DRAFT]
- Get More Coverage
- When does Medicare coverage start? [DRAFT]
- Working past 65
- Your right to access your personal health information
- Privacy practices
- Go paperless
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- Using this site
- Accessibility & Nondiscrimination Notice
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What Medicare covers
- Outpatient procedures (which facility is best)
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) situations
- What Medicare Covers
- Is my test, item, or service covered?
- Your Medicare coverage choices
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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
- 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
- Long-term care choices (other than nursing home care)
- Nursing home care plan
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) care plan
- Your rights in a skilled nursing facility
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What Part B covers
- Competitive Bidding Program & other insurance
- Competitive Bidding Program areas, equipment & supplies
- Competitive Bidding Program
- Getting oxygen equipment & supplies in certain situations
- Power wheelchairs that require prior authorization
- 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 prescriptions in disaster or emergency
- Home health patient rights
- Medicare rules in a disaster or emergency area
- Home health care (more information)
- Paying premiums in a disaster or emergency
- Replacing lost Medicare cards in a disaster or emergency
- Seeing your doctor in a disaster or emergency
- Home health care plan
- Home health care
- Drug coverage (Part D)
- Supplements & other insurance
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Claims & appeals
- File a complaint (grievance)
- File a claim
- Check the status of a claim
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File an appeal
- Appeals Level 1: Company handling Medicare claims redetermination
- Appeals Level 3: Decision by the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA)
- Appeals if you have a Medicare health plan
- Drug Plan Appeals Level 1: Redetermination from your drug plan
- Appeals Level 2: Reconsideration by Independent Review Entity
- Late enrollment penalty (what to do if you disagree)
- Appeals Level 2: Qualified Independent Contractor (QIC) Reconsideration
- Appeals Level 4: Review by Medicare Appeals Council
- Appeals Level 5: Federal district court judicial review
- Medicare health plan appeals - Level 1: Reconsideration
- Medicare health plan appeals - Level 2: Independent Review Entity (IRE)
- Filing an appeal (what to know)
- Get help filing an appeal
- Your right to a fast appeal
- Authorization to Disclose Personal Health Information (PDF)
- Local Coverage Determinations (LCD) challenge
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