People With Medicare

What costs does Medicare cover?

Medicare pays for routine costs of items and services. This can include: 

• Hospital room and board. Medicare would pay for this even if you were not in a study.
• Implanting an item that is being tested
• Treating side effects and complications you get from care in the study

What costs will Medicare NOT pay?

Medicare will not pay for:

• The new item or service that the study is testing, unless Medicare would cover it anyway
• Items and services you get for free from the study
• Items or services not used in your direct health care. An example is monthly CAT (Computerized Axial Tomography) scans, if you normally and medically only needed one every six months.
• Deductibles and coinsurances

Sometimes a study will pay some of the costs if Medicare does not. You will not have to pay for the treatment itself. That is paid for as part of the trial.

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