{"id":20273,"date":"2022-09-26T06:12:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20273"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:12:52","slug":"what-is-medicare-supplemental-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20273","title":{"rendered":"What Is Medicare Supplemental Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare Supplement Insurance or Medigap helps fill &#8220;gaps&#8221; in Original Medicare and is sold by private companies. Original Medicare pays for much, but not all, of the cost of covered health care services and supplies. A Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) policy can help pay some of the remaining health care costs, like Copayments, Coinsurance, and Deductibles. Lee Huffman discusses the average cost of Medicare Supplement Insurance. Read Mr. Huffman\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/average-cost-medicare-supplemental-insurance-130056700.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/average-cost-medicare-supplemental-insurance-130056700.html\">here\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Supplement Insurance or Medigap helps fill &#8220;gaps&#8221; in Original Medicare and is sold by private companies. Original Medicare pays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,46,15],"tags":[61,62,117],"class_list":["post-20273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medigap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273","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=20273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20274,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions\/20274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}