While visiting your doctor for scheduled appointment or test can be stressful enough, an unexpected trip to the hospital has its own set of hassles. If you are on Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan, it’s important to know your rights while you are in a hospital in Arkansas, and around the country.
If you are on Medicare, you have these rights:
- To receive the hospital care needed to find out what is wrong with you and treat your illness or injury.
- To remain in the hospital as long as is medically necessary.
- To be informed about decisions affecting your Medicare coverage and payment for all services.
- To appeal any written notices you receive from the hospital.
- To receive a written discharge plan before you leave the hospital.
Despite your rights, there are gaps in Medicare coverage. As a result, worrying situations could arise, that those with Arkansas Medicare Supplements will be able to avoid.
Imagine arriving at the hospital and being told that the hospital will not admit you because Medicare will not pay for you treatment or stay. Though you have the right to be admitted to the hospital, even if you have to pay, seniors who obtained a personalized Arkansas Medicare Supplement plan were able to avoid this nerve-racking, and financially painful experience.
Or, perhaps while staying at the hospital, you are informed that Medicare will not be paying for the remainder of your stay. Being in the hospital, no one deserves to be concerned with how he/she will afford necessary medical treatment. Seniors who knew of Medicare’s shortfalls beforehand, acquired an Arkansas Medicare Supplement plan, and have no fears about, or uncertainty of how, their medical bills will be paid.
Realizing that Medicare will, most likely, not cover all of your medical expenses is the first step. The next, is to contact Medicare Supplements for You to let us help you in your search for a supplemental insurance plan that will meet all of your health needs.
