{"id":11552,"date":"2018-09-20T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:38:45","slug":"can-preexisting-conditions-affect-your-medigap-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11552","title":{"rendered":"Can preexisting conditions affect your Medigap policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question is: Can an insurance company factor in preexisting conditions when deciding whether to offer you a Medigap policy or when setting the premiums? In \u201cAsk Kim\u201d column appearing on Kiplinger\u2019s website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/\">www.kiplinger.com<\/a>), Kimberly Lankford answers this important question. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/article\/insurance\/T039-C001-S003-preexisting-conditions-affect-medigap-insurance.html?rid=EML&amp;rmrecid=2916804144\">Click here <\/a>to read her answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-e1524659904197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10228\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question is: Can an insurance company factor in preexisting conditions when deciding whether to offer you a Medigap policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}