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Medicare covers skilled nursing facility care for up to 100 days per benefit period after a qualifying hospital stay of at least three days. The first 20 days have no coinsurance under Original Medicare, but days 21 through 100 require a daily cost-sharing amount.
Medicare and Medicaid are separate programs. Medicare is federal health coverage primarily for people 65 and older. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps people with low incomes pay for health care costs.
Moving to Utah triggers a Special Enrollment Period, giving you a window to join a Medicare Advantage or Part D drug plan in your new area. Your original Medicare coverage, Parts A and B, follows you anywhere in the country.
Yes, you should delay Part A enrollment if you are actively contributing to a Health Savings Account (HSA), because enrolling in Part A makes you ineligible to contribute to an HSA going forward, even retroactively in some cases.
People most commonly forget to check whether their current doctors accept the plan they're enrolling in, and whether their prescriptions are covered at a reasonable cost under that plan's drug formulary.