What is Medicare Supplemental Insurance?

Medicare Supplemental insurance is also called a Medigap insurance policy. It is a secondary insurance that is only offered to those people who have "Original Medicare" Medicare part A and B. Medicare Supplemental Insurance helps to cover medical expenses that Medicare part A and part B do not cover.

Those would include things like co-payments, deductibles and other out of pocket expenses. Medicare Supplemental Insurance DOES NOT work with:

Medicare Supplement Insurance is sold by private insurance companies and it is highly regulated by both State and Federal laws. Plans are Labeled as A, B C, D, F, G, K, L, M and N. Each letter represents a different type of plan. Each lettered plan is always identical regardless of who is selling it. So every Medicare Supplement Insurance plan G is identical to every other Medicare Supplement Insurance plan G, but they are different from other lettered plans such as K, L, and F.