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Both Medicare and Medicaid are government insurance programs.
Life insurance is not a bar to eligibility for either Medicare or Medicaid.
In order to get government health insurance for adults in the United States you need to qualify for either medicare or medicaid. Medicare has income limites and medicaid has age requirements.
Having private insurance does not make one ineligible for Medicaid or Medicare.
Medicaid should pick up anything that Medicare doesn't pay for.
In order to get government health insurance for adults in the United States you need to qualify for either medicare or medicaid. Medicare has income limites and medicaid has age requirements.
By law, no, but Medicaid and/or your private insurance carrier might insist that you do so.
Medicare and Medicaid coverage is virtually identical. The two principal things to remember are: Medicaid is always the payor of last resort (i.e., bill Medicare and/or private insurance first); and, Medicare does not pay for long term custodial care, such as a nursing home (Medicaid does).
Medicaid
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Medicaid is intended to cover all medically necessary services for indigent persons, so no supplemental insurance should be necessary. For Medicare, supplemental insurance will be necessary.
Medicaid is always the payor of last resort. Before a Medicaid agency pays a bill for a Medicare beneficiary, they require documentation that Medicare has "adjudicated" the bill (i.e., decided whether to make payment and, if so, how much).