State Medicaid programs may choose to cover optional medical services beyond those listed above. If a state Medicaid program covers an optional medical service, it's allowed to charge the patient a small co-payment for it. The optional coverage offered, and the co-payments for each optional service, vary from state to state but may include:
- Eye examinations and glasses
- Hearing tests and hearing aids
- Dental care
- Preventive screenings
- Physical therapy (beyond what is offered under Medicare)
- Nonemergency transportation to and from medical treatment
- Some non-Medicare-covered prescription drugs and some nonprescription drugs, including certain vitamins
- Chiropractic
Thank you very much for caring about others, and enhancing the quality of life for all people. GOD Bless you, and GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Thank you very much for Medicaid info. I'm 70 and to the point where I thought I'd never be: having to choose between prescriptions and groceries, etc. So I am looking for assistance. Take meds for diabetes, thyroid, cholestrol, hi blood pressure, seizures, heart and more. Am no longer able to work and cannot stretch pension and Soc. Sec. any further. Medicaid might be the answer?? Thks.
Here's another idea: fix America's LTC system before it's too late. Give Medicaid back to the poor, put Medicaid planners out of business, and unleash the potential of private financing alternatives like insurance and reverse mortgages. The moral: save, invest and insure all you can, especially for long-term care. Because LTC is what you'll need as Medicare pays less and less for fewer and fewer acute care services just to stay in front of the grim fiscal reaper.
Just need to dig a lttle deeper