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1. Give a brief description of Medicare. (no more than 2 sentences).
a) Discuss 3 specific (non-age; non-financial) criteria for services from the program, for an older adult client. Be sure to cover service, length of time, provider types that may provide the service, the channels through which the patient may obtain each service.
Kindly provide references and citations.
1.Medicare is the federal health insurance program, usually available for individuals whose age is over 65 years and those in the younger age group with certain disabilities.
a) Criteria
1) it covers the prescription medications
2) hospital insurance it covers inpatient care in a hospital, skilled nursing facility care, nursing home care( other than custodial or long term care) ,Hospice care, home health care.
3) medical insurance under two types of services
Medically necessary services: services or supplies used to treat or early diagnosing the condition
Preventive services: health care to prevent or early detection of the
It includes things like: clinical research
Ambulance service, durable medical equipment. Mental health
Its coverage is based on 3 factors, 1)federal and state laws
2) Decisions made by medicare
3) local companies
It is eligible if anyone is 65 years, duration is 3 months before his birthday to 3 months after his birthday and should have payed 10 years of medicare insurance.