{"id":16612,"date":"2020-08-11T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16612"},"modified":"2020-08-11T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:56:21","slug":"what-are-medigap-policies-and-what-do-they-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16612","title":{"rendered":"What are Medigap policies and what do they cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1992, Congress passed a law that called for the standardization of Medigap policies in reaction to marketing abuses.\u00a0 The standardization meant that each type of Medigap policy would cover its own list of services, independent of what state the consumer lived in when they purchased it or what payer sold the plan to the consumer; however, payers can also offer innovative benefits available as a rider or embedded in their Medigap policies.\u00a0 But to distinguish these policies, payers use a variety of names.\u00a0 So what is the main distinction between Medigap policies?\u00a0 In article appearing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HealthPayerIntelligence.com\">www.HealthPayerIntelligence.com<\/a> , the author discusses with Bonnie Burns, a training and policy specialist at California Health Advocates, who was involved in the lawsuit that initiated standardization of Medigap policies in the 1990s; what are Medigap policies and what do they cover. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/features\/navigating-medigap-plans-how-payers-can-lead-the-way\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7924\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" 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>In 1992, Congress passed a law that called for the standardization of Medigap policies in reaction to marketing abuses.\u00a0 The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,9,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612","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=16612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16613,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions\/16613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}