Life insurance is not a bar to eligibility for either Medicare or Medicaid.
To get any sort of public benefit, such as Medicaid or SSI, one has to have a Social Security number.
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Medicare and Medicaid provide health insurance for the elderly, poor, and disabled.
Can Medicaid sieze the benefits of a life insurance policy
The benefits of disabled children are is free medicaid and they also get other health care services like SCHIP (States Children's Health Insurance Program).
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If the government agrees that the person is disabled and needs medical care medicaid is most likely the insurance they will give that person. The programs are administered by the states and so qualifications vary. There are usually requirements in terms of income and assets was well as degree of medical care needed.
I think you're referring to an explanation of benefits (EOB). These are common in Medicare and private insurance but not so much in Medicaid.
Yes, you can have both Medicaid and a private health insurance plan. The Medicaid plan will pay after your private plan pays. This means that your doctor (or hospital or other service provider) will bill your private plan first; then they will send the private plan's explanation of benefits (called an "EOB") to Medicaid.
I believe it is the transfer of processed claims from Medicare to Medicaid or state agencies and insurance companies that provide supplemental insurance benefits to Medicare beneficiaries.
Medigap: Medigap (also known as medical supplemental insurance) refers an individual insurance policy which can be purchased to cover certain health care services and costs which are not provided by Medicare. Medigap insurance is becoming very important to people covered under the Medicare program since reduction in levels of benefits and curtailment in availability of services have become reality as a result of the need to control the costs of this program. Medicaid: Medicaid is the federal program which provides for the health care needs of certain low-income people. Medicare: Medicare is the federal program which provides for the health care needs of the elderly, the blind and the disabled.