{"id":17269,"date":"2020-12-04T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17269"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:05:52","slug":"what-medicare-beneficiaries-would-pay-for-the-cost-of-treating-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17269","title":{"rendered":"What Medicare beneficiaries would pay for the cost of treating Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a survey from MedicarePlans.com, the coronavirus pandemic may be an extra stressful time for Medicare beneficiaries; about 83 percent are worried about the cost of treating the virus if they contract it. \u00a0Even though Congress and regulators have nixed the out-of-pocket costs for testing, the potential cost of treating the virus would depend at least partly on the severity of the illness as well as a beneficiary\u2019s specific coverage. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/12\/03\/medicare-beneficiaries-worry-about-cost-of-treating-covid.html\">here\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15589\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection.jpg 800w\" 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>According to a survey from MedicarePlans.com, the coronavirus pandemic may be an extra stressful time for Medicare beneficiaries; about 83<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,9,46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269","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=17269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17271,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269\/revisions\/17271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}