{"id":179,"date":"2015-07-27T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=179"},"modified":"2015-07-27T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:05:52","slug":"social-security-qa-what-are-the-different-parts-of-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Q&#038;A: What Are the Different Parts of Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0Tribune News Service)<\/p>\n<p class=\"VN-Body-Text\"><span class=\"VN_Bold\">Question<\/span>: I will rely on Medicare when I retire. Can you explain the different parts of Medicare?<\/p>\n<p class=\"VN-Body-Text\"><span class=\"VN_Bold\">Answer<\/span>: The different parts of Medicare cover your specific needs. There are four parts, all of which work in tandem to deliver health care services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VN-Body-Text\">Part A (hospital insurance): Hospital insurance helps pay for inpatient care in a hospital or skilled nursing facility (following a hospital stay), some home health care, and hospice care. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vnews.com\/specialpublications\/businessxml\/17413960-95\/social-security-qa-what-are-the-different-parts-of-medicare\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"VN-Body-Text\">\n<h6><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0Tribune News Service) Question: I will rely on Medicare when I retire. Can you explain the different parts of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}