Michigan Compiled Laws
218-1956-38 - Chapter 38 Medicare Supplement Policies and Certificates (500.3801...500.3861)
Section 500.3809a - Medicare Supplement Policies or Certificates With Effective Date for Coverage on or After June 1, 2010; Additional Benefits.

Sec. 3809a.
(1) This section applies to all medicare supplement policies or certificates delivered or issued for delivery with an effective date for coverage on or after June 1, 2010.
(2) In addition to the basic core package of benefits required under section 3807a, the following benefits may be included in a medicare supplement insurance policy and if included shall conform to section 3811a(6)(b) to (j):
(a) Medicare part A deductible: coverage for 100% of the medicare part A inpatient hospital deductible amount per benefit period.
(b) Medicare part A deductible: coverage for 50% of the medicare part A inpatient hospital deductible amount per benefit period.
(c) Skilled nursing facility care: coverage for the actual billed charges up to the coinsurance amount from the twenty-first day through the one hundredth day in a medicare benefit period for posthospital skilled nursing facility care eligible under medicare part A.
(d) Medicare part B deductible: coverage for 100% of the medicare part B deductible amount per calendar year regardless of hospital confinement.
(e) One hundred percent of the medicare part B excess charges: coverage for all of the difference between the actual medicare part B charge as billed, not to exceed any charge limitation established by medicare or state law, and the medicare-approved part B charge.
(f) Medically necessary emergency care in a foreign country: coverage to the extent not covered by medicare for 80% of the billed charges for medicare-eligible expenses for medically necessary emergency hospital, physician, and medical care received in a foreign country, which care would have been covered by medicare if provided in the United States and which care began during the first 60 consecutive days of each trip outside the United States, subject to a calendar year deductible of $250.00, and a lifetime maximum benefit of $50,000.00. For purposes of this benefit, "emergency care" means care needed immediately because of an injury or an illness of sudden and unexpected onset.
History: Add. 2009, Act 220, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010 Popular Name: Act 218

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