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Old 06-29-2018, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by elchivito View Post
We don't have K-P out here, but hopefully their plan is a Medicare supplement and not a Medicare Advantage plan.
Lots of top tier places don't take Advantage plans. I got sent to Mayo clinic in Phoenix last fall for a pretty serious issue. I asked the intake person how I was accepted at Mayo with Medicare. She said "we don't take Advantage plans, you have a supplement, you're all covered. If you showed up here with an Advantage plan and a dumptruck full of money, we wouldn't accept you".
BTW, I've heard of both types of Medicare add-ons (didn't want to say supplement) but I've not heard of this difference in terms of actual usefulness.

So is Advantage (cap. A) a specific brand item as opposed to another category of extra coverage, hence the small s, and use of 'a' supplement?
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