This is taken directly from the Medicare and You 2009 book: Emergency ground transportation when you need to be transported to a hospital or skilled nursing facility for medically-necessary services, and transportation in any other vehicle could endanger your health. Medicare will pay for transportation in an airplane or helicopter if you require immediate and rapid ambulance transportation that ground transportation can't provide. You can see the entire book here: http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10050.pdf
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Medicaid will cover transportation that's necessary because of the patient's condition, to/from a source of medical care (i.e., a service for which Medicaid would make payment).
Medicaid policy varies because it is administered by the States; however, in general, Medicaid will furnish transportation to/from a source of medical care.
Having private insurance does not make one ineligible for Medicaid or Medicare.
Medicaid and Medicare
Contact the medical society in your county.
Only if you have Medicare or Medicaid normally. If you were declared disabled, they will pay the bills.
Medicare and Medicaid.
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.
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In such a case, Medicaid will pick up the Medicare premiums and the deductibles and co-payments for Medicare-approved medical items and services.Added: Um-m-m . . . beneficiary of WHAT? An inherlitance? A lawsuit? What?
Lyndon Johnson started Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that the elderly and the poor would have medical care.
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.
Medicare, no. Medicaid, yes.