{"id":17452,"date":"2021-01-07T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2021-01-07T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:03:42","slug":"medicare-parts-that-might-need-a-referral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17452","title":{"rendered":"Medicare parts that might need a referral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a referral letter? I have Medicare do I need one? First, a referral is a letter from a primary care doctor to another healthcare professional, asking them to diagnose or treat a patient. Various Medicare parts have separate rules about the need for a referral letter. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/does-medicare-require-referrals#medicare-rules-for-referrals\">here\u2026<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.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>What is a referral letter? I have Medicare do I need one? First, a referral is a letter from a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452","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=17452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17453,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions\/17453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}