Concept information
Preferred term
Insurance, Medigap
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Medicare Supplemental Insurance
- Medicare Supplement Insurance
- Medigap Insurance
- Medigap Policies
- Medigap Policy
- Policies, Medigap
- Policy, Medigap
- Supplemental Insurance, Medicare
Note
- insures the gap between payments by private insurers & Medicare; specify geog
Scope note
- 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)
History note
- 92
In other languages
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Finnish
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017054
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