You cannot bill Medicaid for your HMO deductibles. However, if you are medicaid eligible, you don't need a Medicare HMO - Medicaid should be paying your Medicare co-payments, deductibles, and any other covered expenses that Medicare doesn't pay.
If you are on Medicaid spend-down, your HMO deductible is a medical expense that can be applied to spend-down.
You submit an EOB from the Medicare HMO with your Medicaid claim.
In Illinois, a provider who accepts a patient as Medicaid cannot bill that patient for anything for which Medicaid would have paid had the provider timely and properly billed Medicaid.
Medicaid is the payor of last resort. Therefore, bill Medicare first. Bill Medicaid for any expenses Medicare didn't cover.
Medicare and Medicaid coverage is virtually identical. The two principal things to remember are: Medicaid is always the payor of last resort (i.e., bill Medicare and/or private insurance first); and, Medicare does not pay for long term custodial care, such as a nursing home (Medicaid does).
Medicare is nationwide. If you're referring to Medicaid, you're covered if the provider is willing to bill Idaho Medicaid.
Medicaid is always the payor of last resort. Before a Medicaid agency pays a bill for a Medicare beneficiary, they require documentation that Medicare has "adjudicated" the bill (i.e., decided whether to make payment and, if so, how much).
whats will medicaid pay for haircuts and is it every month or 6 weeks or 8 weeks
Medicare and Medicaid type of bill codes and definitions can be found on the following website: http://www.indianamedicaid.com/ihcp/Forms/Type_of_Bill_Table.pdf
Unless one anticipates becoming ineligible for Medicaid, there is no good reason for a person who has both Medicare A & B and Medicaid to keep a private insurance plan. However, if you choose to do so, please do the taxpayers a favor and let your medical providers and your Medicaid caseworker know about the private plan, so that Medicaid will be billed only after the bill is "adjudicated" by Medicare and/or the private plan.
Answer$450 * .9 -$135 *.8 = $216.00
pay a higher deductible
Unless one anticipates becoming ineligible for Medicaid, there is no good reason for a person who has both Medicare A & B and Medicaid to keep a private insurance plan. However, if you choose to do so, please do the taxpayers a favor and let your medical providers and your Medicaid caseworker know about the private plan, so that Medicaid will be billed only after the bill is "adjudicated" by Medicare and/or the private plan.