Supplementing Medicare

Medicare does not cover all your health care expenses. Therefore, supplementing your Medicare coverage is important. Your options for supplementing Medicare are reviewed below with a focus on Medigap plans, also known as Medicare supplemental insurance.

In this section:

1. Supplementing Medicare: an overview – Review 9 possible ways you can fill some of the gaps in Medicare.
2. Medigap: Medicare supplemental insurance - A Medicare supplement insurance plan, also called a Medigap policy, is one way to fill the gaps in Medicare. Learn about the 12 standardized Medigap policies, how they work and what they cover.
3. Medigap prices - Learn how Medigap policy premiums are priced.
4. Choosing a Medigap policy - Helpful questions to ask yourself when considering buying a Medigap policy.
5. Your rights to buy a Medigap policy - Learn the certain periods of times where insurance companies must sell you a Medigap policy. During these times they cannot refuse to sell you one due to a health condition or your age.
6. Resources - Helpful resources and information on supplementing Medicare.

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Page updated May 7, 2008