[blparent] Does Medicare Or Medicaid Apply To Blind Folks Getting Aid From Social Security?

[Donna]

It is my understanding that even though medicare is a primary insurance with medicaid being secondary, medicaid will pick up the cost of a service if medicare won't pay. I have medicare & medicaid. I say this because when I delivered my son I rented an electric breast pump with supplies from my cities Health Department. The Health Department billed medicaid for the use of the breast pump. 

Donna
> 
> What Cane said is what actually applies to me.
> I have both Medicare and Medicaid. My Medicare is my primary
> insurance and my Medicaid is supplemental.
> 
> The problem is finding someone to investigate the breast pump issue.
> When I call my Medicare provider, they automatically wonder why they
> would provide such a thing and that is where I have been told that
> Medicare/Humana, doesn't provide breastpumps as a service.
> 
> I just want to be sure this is in fact true, or I just have the luck
> to run into the person/people who don't want to bother looking further
> into it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Amanda
> 
> I don't know exactly why KI have Medicare,
> 
> 
>> On 11/7/17, Star Gazer via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>                    Yes. Amanda you care, because if you
>> ask about Medicare (get it?) you won't get the answer you want/need.
>> The way to remember this is that Medicaid aids the poor, and Medicare cares
>> for the elderly.
>> We can argue all day if the terms are correct or appropriate, I use them
>> because it's a good way to remember which system does which and where you
>> may fall if you use either system.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BlParent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kane
>> Brolin
>> via BlParent
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 8:27 AM
>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Kane Brolin <kbrolin65 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [blparent] Does Medicare Or Medicaid Apply To Blind Folks Getting
>> Aid From Social Security?
>> 
>> Hi.  This is a side note, but I think it is important for us to know the
>> difference between these two programs.  It is significant. .
>> 
>>> On 11/7/17, Star Gazer via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> I always thought Medicare was for old people, i.e. people who wouldn't
>>> be needing breast pumps.
>> 
>> Not necessarily.
>> 
>> "Disabled people who are approved for Social Security disability insurance
>> (SSDI) benefits will receive Medicare, and those who are approved for
>> Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will receive Medicaid."
>> 
>> Some relatively younger persons receive Medicare.
>> 
>> Refer to the article "Does Medicare or Medicaid Come with Disability?"
>> published by DisabilitySecrets.
>> https://www.disabilitysecrets.com/will-i-get-medicare-medicaid-with-disabili
>> ty.html
>> 
>> -Kane
>> 
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