Note: Add the following text in a bold or contrasting color if the plan is a Medicare supplement insurance - high deductible plan as described at sub. (5t) (k): This high deductible plan offers benefits after one has paid a calendar year [$2000] deductible. This deductible consists of expenses that would ordinarily be paid by the policy. This includes the Medicare deductibles for Part A and Part B but does not include the plan’s separate foreign travel emergency deductible.
* These are optional riders. You purchased this benefit if the box is checked and you paid the premium.
** NOTICE: When your Medicare Part A hospital benefits are exhausted, the issuer stands in the place of Medicare and will pay whatever amount Medicare would have paid as provided in the policy’s “Core Benefits.”
*** This optional rider may reduce your premium when you pay 50% of Medicare Part A deductible.
MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT POLICIES – PART B BENEFITS
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
Note: Add the following text in a bold or contrasting color if the plan is a Medicare supplement insurance-high deductible plan as described at sub. (5t) (k): This high deductible plan offers benefits after one has paid a calendar year [$2000] deductible. This deductible consists of expenses that would ordinarily be paid by the policy. This includes the Medicare deductibles for Part A and Part B but does not include the plan’s separate foreign travel emergency deductible.
* Once you have been billed [$ ] of Medicare approved amounts for covered services (that are noted with an asterisk), your Medicare Part B deductible will have been met for the calendar year.
** These are optional riders. You purchased this benefit if the box is checked and you paid the premium.
*** This is an optional rider that may decrease your premium when you pay copayments for medical and emergency room visits.
Ins 3.39 APPENDIX 4m
OUTLINE OF COVERAGE
(COMPANY NAME)
OUTLINE OF MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT 50% and 25% COST-SHARING PLANS
(The designation required by sub. (5m) (g) 1. and (h) 1.)
You will pay [half or one quarter] the cost-sharing of some covered services until you reach the annual out-of-pocket limit of $[ ] each calendar year. The amounts that count toward your annual out-of-pocket limit are noted with diamonds (⋄) in the chart below. Once you reach the annual out-of-pocket limit, the policy plays 100% of your Medicare copayment and coinsurance for the rest of the calendar year. However, this limit does NOT include charges from your provider that exceed Medicare approved amounts (these are called “Excess Charges”) and you will be responsible for paying this difference in the amount charged by your provider and the amount paid by Medicare for the item or service.
MEDICARE COST-SHARING PART A – HOSPITAL SERVICES – PER BENEFIT PERIOD
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
A benefit period begins on the first day you receive service as an inpatient in a hospital and ends after you have been out of the hospital and have not received skilled care in any other facility for 60 days in a row.
** NOTICE: When your Medicare Part A hospital benefits are exhausted, the issuer stands in the place of Medicare and will pay whatever amount Medicare would have paid as provided in the policy’s “Core Benefits.”
MEDICARE COST-SHARING POLICIES – PART B BENEFITS
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
* Once you have been billed [$ ] of Medicare approved amounts for covered services (that are noted with an asterisk), your Medicare Part B deductible will have been met for the calendar year.
** These are optional riders. You purchased this benefit if the box is checked and you paid the premium.
INS 3.39 APPENDIX 4t
OUTLINE OF COVERAGE
(COMPANY NAME)
OUTLINE OF MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT 50% and 25% COST-SHARING PLANS
(The designation required by sub. (5t) (g) 1. and (h) 1.)
You will pay [half or one quarter] the cost-sharing of some covered services until you reach the annual out-of-pocket limit of $[ ] each calendar year. The amounts that count toward your annual out-of-pocket limit are noted with diamonds (⋄) in the chart below. Once you reach the annual out-of-pocket limit, the policy plays 100% of your Medicare copayment and coinsurance for the rest of the calendar year. However, this limit does NOT include charges from your provider that exceed Medicare approved amounts (these are called “Excess Charges”). You will be responsible for paying this difference in the amount charged by your provider and the amount paid by Medicare for the item or service.
MEDICARE COST-SHARING PART A – HOSPITAL SERVICES – PER BENEFIT PERIOD
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
A benefit period begins on the first day you receive service as an inpatient in a hospital and ends after you have been out of the hospital and have not received skilled care in any other facility for 60 days in a row.
** NOTICE: When your Medicare Part A hospital benefits are exhausted, the issuer stands in the place of Medicare and will pay whatever amount Medicare would have paid as provided in the policy’s “Core Benefits.”
MEDICARE COST-SHARING POLICIES – PART B BENEFITS
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
* Once you have been billed [$ ] of Medicare approved amounts for covered services (that are noted with an asterisk), your Medicare Part B deductible will have been met for the calendar year.
** These are optional riders. You purchased this benefit if the box is checked and you paid the premium.
Ins 3.39 APPENDIX 5m
OUTLINE OF COVERAGE
(COMPANY NAME)
OUTLINE OF MEDICARE SELECT INSURANCE AND
MEDICARE SELECT 50% and 25% COST-SHARING PLANS
(The designation and caption required by sub. (30m) (i) 8. and 9., or the designation required by sub. (30m) (r) 1. and (s) 1.)
Note: Add the following text if the policy is a Medicare Select 50% or 25% Cost-Sharing Plan: You will pay [half or one quarter] the cost-sharing of some covered services until you reach the annual out-of-pocket limit of $[ ] each calendar year. The amounts that count toward your annual out-of-pocket limit are noted with diamonds (⋄) in the chart below. Once you reach the annual limit, the policy plays 100% of your Medicare copayment and coinsurance for the rest of the calendar year. However, this limit does NOT include charges from your provider that exceed Medicare approved amounts (these are called “Excess Charges”), and you will be responsible for paying this difference in the amount charged by your provider and the amount paid by Medicare for the item or service.
MEDICARE SELECT PART A – HOSPITAL SERVICES – PER BENEFIT PERIOD
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
A benefit period begins on the first day you receive service as an inpatient in a hospital and ends after you have been out of the hospital and have not received skilled care in any other facility for 60 days in a row.
** NOTICE: When your Medicare Part A hospital benefits are exhausted, the issuer stands in the place of Medicare and will pay whatever amount Medicare would have paid as provided in the policy’s “Core Benefits.”
MEDICARE SELECT POLICIES – PART B BENEFITS
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
* Once you have been billed [$ ] of Medicare approved amounts for covered services (that are noted with an asterisk), your Medicare Part B deductible will have been met for the calendar year.
** NOTE: Issuers should include in the outline of coverage the appropriate preventive benefit based upon whether or not the policy is a cost-sharing policy.
INS 3.39 APPENDIX 5t
OUTLINE OF COVERAGE
(COMPANY NAME)
OUTLINE OF MEDICARE SELECT INSURANCE AND
MEDICARE SELECT 50% and 25% COST-SHARING PLANS
(The designation and caption required by sub. (30t) (i) 8. and 9., or the designation required by sub. (30t) (r) 1. and (s) 1.)
Note: Add the following text if the policy is a Medicare Select 50% or 25% Cost-Sharing Plan: You will pay [half or one quarter] the cost-sharing of some covered services until you reach the annual out-of-pocket limit of $[ ] each calendar year. The amounts that count toward your annual out-of-pocket limit are noted with diamonds (⋄) in the chart below. Once you reach the annual limit, the policy plays 100% of your Medicare copayment and coinsurance for the rest of the calendar year. However, this limit does NOT include charges from your provider that exceed Medicare approved amounts (these are called “Excess Charges”). You will be responsible for paying this difference in the amount charged by your provider and the amount paid by Medicare for the item or service.
MEDICARE SELECT PART A – HOSPITAL SERVICES – PER BENEFIT PERIOD
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
A benefit period begins on the first day you receive service as an inpatient in a hospital and ends after you have been out of the hospital and have not received skilled care in any other facility for 60 days in a row.
** NOTICE: When your Medicare Part A hospital benefits are exhausted, the issuer stands in the place of Medicare and will pay whatever amount Medicare would have paid as provided in the policy’s “Core Benefits.”
MEDICARE SELECT POLICIES – PART B BENEFITS
Note: Issuers should include only the wording that applies to their policy’s “This Policy Pays” column and complete the “You Pay” column.
* Once you have been billed [$ ] of Medicare approved amounts for covered services (that are noted with an asterisk), your Medicare Part B deductible will have been met for the calendar year.
** NOTE: Issuers should include in the outline of coverage the appropriate preventive benefit based upon whether or not the policy is a cost-sharing policy.
Ins 3.39 APPENDIX 6
[NOTICE OF CHANGE FOR OUTLINE OF COVERAGE]
[FOR APPLICANTS FIRST ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICARE PRIOR TO JUNE 1, 2010.]
(COMPANY NAME)
NOTICE OF CHANGES IN MEDICARE AND YOUR [MEDICARE
SUPPLEMENT OR MEDICARE COST] COVERAGE – 2_____
THE FOLLOWING CHART BRIEFLY DESCRIBES THE MODIFICATIONS IN MEDICARE AND IN YOUR [MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT OR MEDICARE COST] COVERAGE.
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!
[Note: A brief description of the revisions to Medicare Parts A and B with a parallel description of supplemental benefits with subsequent changes, including dollar amounts, provided by the Medicare supplement or Medicare cost coverage in substantially the following format.]
[Note: Describe any coverage provisions changing due to Medicare modifications. Include information about when premium adjustments that may be necessary due to changes in Medicare benefits will be effective.]
THIS CHART SUMMARIZES THE CHANGES IN YOUR MEDICARE BENEFITS AND IN YOUR MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT OR MEDICARE REPLACEMENT] COVERAGE PROVIDED BY (COMPANY) ONLY BRIEFLY DESCRIBES SUCH BENEFITS. FOR INFORMATION ON YOUR MEDICARE BENEFITS CONTACT YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE OR THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES. FOR INFORMATION ON YOUR [MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT OR MEDICARE REPLACEMENT] POLICY CONTACT:
[COMPANY OR FOR AN INDIVIDUAL POLICY - NAME OF AGENT]
