Go to medicare school.com to get info on the different plans. you learn alot there He also is on UTUBE........
Part B covers 2 types of services
Medically necessary services: Services or supplies that are needed to diagnose or treat your medical condition and that meet accepted standards of medical practice.
Preventive services: Health care to prevent illness (like the flu) or detect it at an early stage, when treatment is most likely to work best.
You pay nothing for most preventive services if you get the services from a health care provider who accepts assignment.
Part B covers things like:
Clinical research
Ambulance services
Durable medical equipment (DME)
Mental health
Inpatient
Outpatient
Partial hospitalization
Limited outpatient prescription drugs
IF Dr accepts regular medicare than this kicks in also and they have to take it no matter what the plan...............IF you want to go to MAYO in Florida with a advantage plan forget it.........They only take regular medicare and supps the letter went out this week also on UTUBE advantage plans can not be that great THOSE are the ones that can deny your knee replacement and make you wait and get injections or theraphy IF thats what they suggest........NO referral needed if on regular MEDICARE OR IF you need that surgery.......Also depending on even what drugs you are using and your health records IF you want to go back to regular medicare you may never ever be able to moving forward.....You may be stuck in the Advantage plan BTW also covered in medicareschool.com or his utube channel..........buyer beware
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