num_pages: 35
description:  recent legislation included Medicare+Choice, which will result in changes to the Medicare program; you now have new preventive health benefits &amp; new patient protections. In addition, starting in 1999, Medicare will offer new health plan choices. This handbook includes a description of the new preventive benefits available to you, the rights you have as a patient, &amp; the new health plan options available to you. It will help you identify some of the important questions you will want to ask &amp; includes a list of important resources for you to get more information.
language: English
title: Medicare and You: Original Medicare Plan and Other Medicare Health Plan Choices, 1999
titlecomplete: Medicare and You: Original Medicare Plan and Other Medicare Health Plan Choices, 1999
publisher: Diane Pub Co