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Back Surgery, and who pays?

Spine Health | Last Active: Aug 19, 2020 | Replies (16)

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I don’t think so. Basically with A & B, one covers in-hospital costs, like surgery, nursing care, room rate, meds administered while an inpatient, things like that. The other part pays for office visits, outpatient testing (think bloodwork, XRays, mammograms, colonoscopy, that type of stuff). Medicare D is the medication plan part - some Advantage plans cover it, some you have to buy it separately. Advantage plans basically fill in the gap that Medicare leaves you - that 20% copay type gap. There are many types of Advantage plans. (Kind of confusing if you ask me!)

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Yes confusing. I do have D and not expensive. I'll look at Advantage plans. By plans do you mean various companies offering plans or plans offered by Medicare. I'm pretty green on how woven the crew is to each other. 15 years ago having to get SSD with an attorney was quite a surprise.