Health Care

Medigap Insurance

A supplemental health insurance policy sold by private insurance companies and designed to pay for health care costs and services that are not paid for either by Medicare alone or by a combination of Medicare and existing private health insurance benefits. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)

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Abstract

A supplemental health insurance policy sold by private insurance companies and designed to pay for health care costs and services that are not paid for either by Medicare alone or by a combination of Medicare and existing private health insurance benefits. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)

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Synonyms

8 entry terms
  • Insurance, Medigap
  • Medicare Supplement Insurance
  • Medicare Supplemental Insurance
  • Medigap Policy
  • Medigap Policies
  • Policies, Medigap
  • Policy, Medigap
  • Supplemental Insurance, Medicare

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

insures the gap between payments by private insurers & Medicare; specify geog

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Previous Indexing

  • Insurance, Health (1977-1991)
  • Medicare (1977-1991)

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WT 31.5

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Medigap Insurance. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017054. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017054
  2. Medigap Insurance. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medigap
  3. Medigap Insurance. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6806864