Medicare coverage while travelling
This post contains a lesson and a question: We are just retired and will be spending 4-6 months on the road starting March of '17. We are just now eligible for Medicare and have decided to buy a M...
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Our domicile is Florida, and we do spend much of the year in state.
I am pre-Medicare age, but DH qualifies. He has a Medicare advantage Humana PPO plan that has a nationwide network. To date he has been fortunate to need only routine, scheduled checkups with his (in network) Primary Care Doc in Florida; we have not utilized the nationwide network (yeah!). We did check that his preferred doc and hospital from our usual summer locale are on the PPO list. He was happily with Humana when we were in S&B before we bought the RV; he wanted to stay with them as a full timer if feasible. So far so good.
If you want an Advantage plan, it might be worth a website visit and phone call to see if a PPO from Humana might be available and suitable.
We buy travel insurance to cover both of us for our international travels.
I am pre-Medicare age, but DH qualifies. He has a Medicare advantage Humana PPO plan that has a nationwide network. To date he has been fortunate to need only routine, scheduled checkups with his (in network) Primary Care Doc in Florida; we have not utilized the nationwide network (yeah!). We did check that his preferred doc and hospital from our usual summer locale are on the PPO list. He was happily with Humana when we were in S&B before we bought the RV; he wanted to stay with them as a full timer if feasible. So far so good.
If you want an Advantage plan, it might be worth a website visit and phone call to see if a PPO from Humana might be available and suitable.
We buy travel insurance to cover both of us for our international travels.
