A-Z Index
- Don’t wait: Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment ends March 31
- Getting Medicare if you have a disability
- Getting started with Medicare
- Privacy policy
- What’s a home health care plan?
- Publications
- Sign Up / Change Plans
- Get started with Medicare
- How do I get Parts A & B?
- I have employer coverage
- Apply for Medicare online
- When can I join a health or drug plan?
- Types of Medicare health plans
- Choosing a MSA Plan (questions to ask)
- Choosing primary care doctors in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Costs in MSA Plans
- Coverage options in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Doctor, provider, & hospitals in Medicare Advantage Plans
- How Medicare SNPs work
- Joining a Medical Savings Account plan
- Looking for a plan (questions to ask)
- MSA Plans and other coverage
- Medicare Advantage Plans (things to know)
- Medicare Advantage Plans
- Medicare Medical Savings Account (MSA) Plans
- Medicare Medical Savings Account (MSA) plan examples
- Medicare health plans (other than MA & MSA)
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
- Prescription drug coverage in Medicare Advantage plans
- Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS)
- Qualified Medical Expenses
- Special Needs Plans (SNP)
- Specialists & referrals in Medicare Advantage Plans
- Using your Medical Savings Account
- Find health & drug plans
- Check your enrollment
- Find doctors, hospitals & facilities
- Report a death
- About Us
- Medicare & the Marketplace
- How is Medicare funded?
- Get involved with Medicare
- Contact Medicare
- Plain writing
- Information in other languages
- Arabic publications
- Armenian publications
- Cambodian publications
- Chinese publications
- Farsi publications
- French publications
- German publications
- Greek publications
- Haitian Creole publications
- Hindi publications
- Hmong publications
- Italian publications
- Japanese publications
- Korean publications
- Laotian publications
- Polish publications
- Portuguese publications
- Russian publications
- Samoan publications
- Tagalog publications
- Tongan publications
- Vietnamese publications
- Accessibility & Nondiscrimination Notice
- Your Medicare Costs
- What Medicare Covers
- Outpatient procedures (which facility is best)
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) situations
- What Medicare Covers
- Is my test, item, or service covered?
- Your Medicare coverage choices
- What Part A covers
- Inpatient or outpatient hospital status affects your costs
- Assessments in skilled nursing facilities
- Choose the nursing home that meets your needs
- Choosing a nursing home
- Compare nursing home quality
- Nursing homes in your area
- Health care & prescriptions in a nursing home
- Hospital care coverage in Part A
- How can I pay for nursing home care?
- How hospice works
- Information nursing homes need to admit you
- Medicare Part A coverage—hospice
- Medicare Part A coverage—nursing home care
- Medicare Part A coverage—skilled nursing facility care
- Reporting & resolving nursing home problems
- Reporting problems in a skilled nursing facility
- Returning to the community from a nursing home
- Rights & protections in a nursing home
- Visit potential nursing homes
- Long-term care choices (other than nursing home care)
- Nursing home care plan
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) care plan
- Your rights in a skilled nursing facility
- What Part B covers
- Competitive Bidding Program & other insurance
- Competitive Bidding Program areas, equipment & supplies
- Competitive Bidding Program
- Getting oxygen equipment & supplies in certain situations
- Power wheelchairs that require prior authorization
- Where to get supplies included in the Competitive Bidding Program
- Where to get supplies included in the Competitive Bidding Program when you travel
- What Medicare health plans cover
- Preventive & screening services
- What's not covered by Part A & Part B
- 10 Signs of a good quality home health agency
- Durable medical equipment replacement in disaster or emergency
- Getting cancer treatment in a disaster or emergency
- Getting care & drugs in disasters or emergencies
- Getting prescriptions in disaster or emergency
- Home health patient rights
- Medicare rules in a disaster or emergency area
- Home health care (more information)
- Paying premiums in a disaster or emergency
- Replacing lost Medicare cards in a disaster or emergency
- Seeing your doctor in a disaster or emergency
- Home health care plan
- Home health care
- Drug Coverage (Part D)
- Supplements & Other Insurance
- Claims & Appeals
- File a complaint (grievance)
- File a claim
- Check the status of a claim
- File an appeal
- Appeals Level 1: Company handling Medicare claims redetermination
- Appeals Level 3: Decision by the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA)
- Drug Plan Appeals Level 1: Redetermination from your drug plan
- Appeals Level 2: Reconsideration by Independent Review Entity
- Late enrollment penalty (what to do if you disagree)
- Appeals Level 2: Qualified Independent Contractor (QIC) Reconsideration
- Appeals Level 4: Review by Medicare Appeals Council
- Appeals Level 5: Federal district court judicial review
- Medicare health plan appeals - Level 1: Reconsideration
- Medicare health plan appeals - Level 2: Independent Review Entity (IRE)
- Filing an appeal (what to know)
- Get help filing an appeal
- Your right to a fast appeal
- Your Medicare rights
- Rights & protections for everyone with Medicare
- Your rights in Original Medicare
- Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage
- Your rights in Medicare health plans
- Your rights in Medicare drug plans
- Get help with your rights & protections
- Home health agencies (reduce or stop service)
- Your right to access your personal health information
- Authorization to Disclose Personal Health Information
- Local Coverage Determinations (LCD) challenge
- Manage Your Health
- Forms, Help, & Resources
- Find care
- Medicare forms
- Free Medicare publications
- "Medicare & You" handbook
- Mail you get about Medicare
- "Medicare Summary Notice" (MSN)
- "Sign up for Part B" package
- Auto-Enrollment Notice
- Auto-Enrollment Retroactive Notice
- CMS Non-Renewal Action Notice
- CMS Non-Renewal Reminder Notice
- Change Extra Help Copayment Notice
- Deemed Status Notice
- Evidence of Coverage (EOC)
- Explanation of Benefits (EOB)
- Facilitated Enrollment Notice
- Getting too many copies of the handbook?
- Initial IRMAA Determination
- LIS Choosers Notice
- Letters about your online Medicare account
- Loss of Deemed Status Notice
- Medicare Advantage Plan Reassignment Notice
- Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Selection Letter
- Notice of Creditable Coverage
- Part B & Part D IRMAA
- Plan Annual Notice of Change (ANOC)
- Plan LIS Rider
- Plan Non-Renewal Notice
- Plan marketing materials
- Qualifying Health Coverage Notice & IRS Form 1095-B
- Reassign Formulary Notice
- Reassignment Notice - Plan Termination
- Reassignment Notice - Premium Increase
- Reminder letter (automatically enrolled)
- Replacement Medicare card letter
- Retiree Drug Subsidy Notice - Dual Eligibles
- Social Security Benefit Rate Change (BRI) Notice
- Social Security LIS & MSP Outreach Notice (May)
- Social Security LIS & MSP Outreach Notice (November)
- Social Security LIS Redetermination Decision Notice
- Social Security Review Eligibility for Extra Help Notice
- “Welcome to Medicare” booklet and letter
- “Welcome to Medicare” package (not automatically enrolled)
- Medicare Premium Bill (CMS-500)
- Lost/incorrect Medicare card
- Report fraud & abuse
- Identity theft: protect yourself
- Phone numbers & websites
- Privacy practices
- Contact Medicare
- Go paperless
- Your Medicare card
- "Welcome to Medicare" preventive visit
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening
- Acupuncture
- Advance care planning
- Air-fluidized beds
- Alcohol misuse screening & counseling
- Ambulance services
- Ambulatory surgical centers
- Anesthesia
- Artificial eyes & limbs
- Bariatric surgery
- Behavioral health integration services
- Blood
- Blood processing & handling
- Blood sugar monitors
- Blood sugar test strips
- Bone mass measurements
- Braces (arm, leg, back, and neck)
- Breast prostheses
- Canes
- Cardiac rehabilitation programs
- Cardiovascular behavioral therapy
- Cardiovascular disease screenings
- Cervical & vaginal cancer screenings
- Chemotherapy
- Chiropractic services
- Chronic care management services
- Clinical laboratory tests
- Clinical research studies
- Commode chairs
- Concierge care
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices
- Continuous passive motion (CPM) devices
- Cosmetic surgery
- Counseling to prevent tobacco use & tobacco-caused disease
- Covered services list
- Crutches
- Defibrillators
- Dental services
- Depression screenings
- Diabetes screenings
- Diabetes self-management training
- Diagnostic laboratory tests
- Diagnostic non-laboratory tests
- Dialysis (children)
- Dialysis services & supplies
- Doctor & other health care provider services
- Durable medical equipment (DME) coverage
- EKG or ECG screenings
- Emergency department services
- Enteral nutrition supplies & equipment
- Eye exams (for diabetes)
- Eye exams (routine)
- Eyeglasses & contact lenses
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) services
- Flu shots
- Foot care (for diabetes)
- Foot care (routine)
- Foot care
- Glaucoma tests
- Glucose control solutions
- Gym membership & fitness programs
- HIV screening
- Hearing & balance exams
- Hearing aids
- Hepatitis B Virus infection screenings
- Hepatitis B shots
- Hepatitis C screening test
- Home health services
- Hospice care
- Hospital beds
- Humidifiers
- Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy
- Incontinence supplies & adult diapers
- Infusion pumps & supplies
- Inpatient hospital care
- Insulin
- Kidney disease education
- Kidney transplants (children)
- Kidney transplants
- Lancet devices & lancets
- Long-term care hospital services
- Long-term care
- Lung cancer screening
- Macular degeneration tests & treatment
- Mammograms
- Massage therapy
- Mental health care (inpatient)
- Mental health care (outpatient)
- Mental health care (partial hospitalization)
- Multi-target stool DNA tests
- Nebulizers & nebulizer medications
- Nursing home care
- Nutrition therapy services
- Obesity behavioral therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Organ transplants
- Orthopedic shoes
- Osteoporosis drugs
- Ostomy supplies
- Outpatient hospital services
- Outpatient medical & surgical services & supplies
- Oxygen equipment & accessories
- Pancreas transplants
- Patient lifts
- Physical therapy
- Pneumococcal shots
- Prescription drugs (outpatient)
- Pressure-reducing support surfaces
- Preventive & screening services
- Prostate cancer screenings
- Prosthetic devices
- Pulmonary rehabilitation programs
- Radiation therapy
- Religious non-medical health care institution (RNHCI) items & services
- Rural health clinic (RHC) services
- Screening barium enemas
- Screening colonoscopies
- Screening fecal occult blood tests
- Screening flexible sigmoidoscopies
- Second surgical opinions
- Sexually transmitted infections (STI) screening & counseling
- Shingles shot
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) care
- Sleep study
- Speech-language pathology services
- Suction pumps
- Supplies
- Surgery
- Surgical dressing services
- Tdap shot (tetanus, diphtheria, & pertussis shot)
- Telehealth
- Therapeutic continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
- Therapeutic shoes & inserts
- Traction equipment
- Transitional Care Management Services
- Travel (when you need health care outside the U.S.)
- Urgently needed care
- Walkers
- Wheelchairs & scooters
- X-rays
- Yearly "Wellness" visits