Glossary of Medicare Terms
- Accepting Assignment
- Advance Directive
- AEP (Annual Election Period)
- Assignments
- Average Annual Drug Costs
- Balance Billing
- Beneficiary
- Benefit Period
- Bone Mass Measurement
- Brand Name Drug
- CAH (Critical Access Hospital)
- Catastrophic Coverage
- CMS (The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
- Coinsurance
- Coordination of Benefits
- Copayment
- Cost Sharing
- Coverage Gap
- Creditable Drug Coverage
- Deductible
- Deemed
- Disenroll-term
- DME (Durable Medical Equipment)
- Donut Hole
- Drug Restrictions
- Dual Eligible
- Emergency
- Employer/Union Retiree Plans
- ESRD (End-Stage Renal Disease)
- Estimated Annual Cost
- Exclusions
- Extra Help
- FFS (Fee for Service)
- Formulary
- Generic Drug
- Guaranteed Issue Rights
- Health Maintenance Organization
- Home Health Care
- Hospice
- Hospital Insurance
- In-Network Provider
- Initial Coverage Limit
- Initial Enrollment Period
- Inpatient Services
- Late Enrollment Penalty
- Living Will
- Long Term Care
- Low-Income Subsidy
- Maximum Out-of-Pocket Limit
- Medical Insurance
- Medical Savings Account
- Medically Necessary Care
- Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Period
- Medicare Advantage Plan
- Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan
- Medicare Savings Program
- Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap)
- Medigap Open Enrollment Period
- Monthly Plan Premium
- Network
- Original Medicare
- Out-of-Network Provider
- Out-of-Pocket Costs
- Out-of-Pocket Maximum
- Outpatient Services
- Overall Star Rating
- Point-of-Service Plan
- Pre-Existing Condition
- Preferred Provider Organization
- Prescription Drug Plan
- Preventive Care
- Primary Care Physician
- Private Fee-for-Service Plan
- Referral
- Retiree Health Coverage
- Secondary Payer
- Service Area
- Skilled Nursing Care
- Skilled Nursing Facility
- Special Needs Plan
- State Health Insurance Assistance Program
- Step Therapy
- Supplemental Security Income
- Tiered Formulary
- TTY
- Urgent Care
