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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Murphsmom wrote:
Remember that Medicare does not cover you while you are out of the country. My cousin's husband learned that the hard way. Broke his leg on a trip to Canada, which turned out to be an expensive proposition without a medigap policy.
There are certain instances when Medicare does cover. I would think a broken leg would be an emergency.
https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/travel-need-health-care-outside-us.html
