if someone is on disabilitty can they apply for medicare?

Question

if he was on med-cal and was placed on health plan and don't have coverage at UC Davis Hospital had a liver transplant need answers thank you!

Answer 1

Someone has to be entitled to Social Security disability (SSDI) for 24 months before they can be entitled to Medicare (or age 65 or suffering from end stage renal disease (kidney failure)). The enrollment is automatic so a person doesn't have to apply for it if they are already entitled to monthly benefits. So if, for example, the month of entitlement is June, 2010 then Medicare will be effective June, 2012.



SSI beneficiaries can become entitled to Medicare when they are age 65; they are not entitled to Medicare before then.

Answer 2

To apply for Medicare you must be over 65, or getting federal SSDI benefits, or have end stage kidney disease.



I dont understand. UC Davis did a liver transplant but they dont take Medi-Cal, so how did you pay?



NOTE: You cannot apply for Medicare if you are on SSI for disability or short term disability. Only if you are permanently disabled on SSDI, then 24 months after your disability date you get Medicare automatically.

Answer 3

Someone who is placed on Social Security disability can apply for Medicare

2 years after becoming disabled.

They could apply for Medicaid and also Social Security Income

(if they are in a very low income bracket).

I would check with your local Social Security office where you live.



Medicare has to be obtained before having a transplant done, in order for

Medicare to pay for one...otherwise, his other insurance will have to cover it

for him. Medicare usually will pay up to 80% of the cost; If the transplant

was done at a Medicare approved Transplant Center. If the

Medicare plan pays for the transplant itself, then his anti

rejection drugs would be covered under part B of the Medicare plan.

If not, and the transplant was done under another insurance company,

say through his employer, then he may apply for Part D prescription

program (after obtaining Medicare) that will help cover the cost of this

anti-rejection drug prescription.



You can called the Transplant Center that is closest to you to see if

they are a Medicare approved Transplant Center.

To find a transplant center, you can call this phone number: calling [phone].

http://www.ustransplant.org/csr/current/Centers/TransplantCenters.aspx?organ=Liver

Or type the name of the state where the transplant may be done and

"Transplant Center" after that, in your search engine and they may

bring them up. Many of the Transplant Centers have a website you can go

to, to learn more about them.



Best wishes. Hope this information is of some help to you.

Answer 4

You are eligible for medicare 2 years after going on disability.