{"id":4310,"date":"2017-07-06T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/?page_id=4310"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T17:56:34","slug":"medicare-costs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/medicare-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1499449583392{padding-right: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Original Medicare doesn\u2019t cover everything.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Original Medicare helps you get health care coverage but you should expect to pay some of the costs.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>You have options!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1499450182896{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}&#8221;]You can enroll in a Medicare supplement insurance plan to help pay some of the costs and benefits that aren\u2019t paid by Original Medicare Parts A and B. You can also enroll in a stand-alone Medicare Part D plan for help with your prescription drug costs.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;OR&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1499450194098{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}&#8221;]You can enroll in a Medicare Advantage Part C plan offered by private insurance companies. Part C Medicare Advantage plans generally give you all of the coverage provided by Original Medicare Parts A and B, as well as additional benefits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Combines hospital costs and doctor and outpatient care in one plan.<\/li>\n<li>Often includes Part D prescription drug coverage.<\/li>\n<li>May include additional benefits such as dental, vision or hearing services as well as SilverSneakers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Your plan choices don\u2019t have to be permanent. <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You can change plans as your health care needs change. You\u2019re not permanently locked into one plan.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll have the opportunity to change plans at least once a year during the Medicare Open Enrollment Period<br \/>\nstarting October 15<sup>th<\/sup> through December 7<sup>th<\/sup>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1499449583392{padding-right: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Original Medicare doesn\u2019t cover everything. Original Medicare helps you get health care coverage but you should expect to pay some of the costs. You have options! [\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1499450182896{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}&#8221;]You can enroll in a Medicare supplement insurance plan to help pay some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballardbenefits.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}