A supplemental health insurance policy sold by private insurance companies and designed to pay for health care costs and services that are not paid for either by Medicare alone or by a combination of Medicare and existing private health insurance benefits. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)

Annotation

insures the gap between payments by private insurers & Medicare; specify geog

DUI

D017054 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0025914

Previous indexing

Insurance, Health (1977-1991); Medicare (1977-1991)

History note

92

Public note

92