the Medicare program was expanded to include people who have permanent kidney failure and need dialysis or transplants and people under the age of 65 who have specific types of disabilities.
Informing the medical staff
The PPACA makes signficant changes to Medicaid (the program for the poor), but mostly administrative changes to Medicare (the program for the elderly). Medicare is a separately administered program from most of the PPACA system, and the only really significant changes to Medicare that were included in were administrative (covering the method of payments, and amounts), and the eventual elimination of the Part D "donut hole" coverage problem. See the link below for a summary list of all the changes that the PPACA made to Medicare. Note that almost none concern available services/benefits.
changes in eligibility
If the physican bills a medicare patient $260 and Medicare approves $250 and Medicare Pays $200. Is the Collectible amount $200? Is the balance due by the patient $50? And is there an Adjustment?
Since 1973, Medicare has picked up 80% of ESRD treatment costs, including the costs of dialysis and transplantation and of some medications
Lyndon B Johnson
Medicare would have covered all the remainder if my insurance had not made the error "Can they rebill medicare again I received a bill from the hospital almost 2 years after spouses death because insurance company made a mistake am I responsible because medicare should pay rest?"
TO WHAT AN EXTEND THE CLAA CHANGES SECTION 288 OF RHE COMPANIES' ACT OF 1973
the population has aged, so the program costs the government more to run
No, a patient cannot have both Original Medicare and a Medicare Advantage plan simultaneously. Medicare Advantage plans are an alternative to Original Medicare, and when a patient enrolls in a Medicare Advantage plan, they effectively replace their Original Medicare coverage with that plan. However, patients may have supplemental plans, such as Medigap, alongside Original Medicare, but not with a Medicare Advantage plan.
There was a war going on.
No, Medicare is a Fee For Service Program, but doctors must contract with Medicare to treat Medicare patients