{"id":15999,"date":"2020-05-14T10:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15999"},"modified":"2020-05-14T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:55:01","slug":"do-i-need-medicare-if-i-have-fehb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15999","title":{"rendered":"Do I need Medicare if I have FEHB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are a retired federal employee turning 65 and thinking whether or not to sign up for Medicare Part A since you paid for it or stay on the FEHB program?\u00a0 First let\u2019s discuss the parts of Medicare: Part A only covers hospital costs, Part B covers physicians\u2019 services and you must pay a premium, and Part D provides prescription drug coverage and you must pay a premium.\u00a0 Although FEHB and Medicare cover many of the same benefits, neither of them cover exactly the same things and each has deductibles or copayments. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedweek.com\/reg-jones-experts-view\/you-paid-for-medicare-so-do-you-still-need-fehb-in-retirement\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>You are a retired federal employee turning 65 and thinking whether or not to sign up for Medicare Part A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15999","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=15999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16000,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15999\/revisions\/16000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}