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