Key facts
- Formed
- July 30, 1965 ; 60 years ago ( 1965-07-30 )
- Headquarters
- 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore , Maryland 21244, U.S.
- Agency executive
- Mehmet Oz , Administrator
- Parent department
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Key document
- Social Security Amendments of 1965
- Website
- medicare.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
91,723 papers- Medicare's preventive services.The American journal of nursing · 2004
- Medicare's Bundled Payment Models-Reply.JAMA · 2022
- Medicare's Bundled Payment Models.JAMA · 2022
- MEDICARE'S IMPACT.Hospital topics · 1965
- Medicare's Bundled Payment Models-Progress and Pitfalls.JAMA · 2022
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Official website
- es.medicare.gov
- Image
- Medicare-logo.png
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- Commons category
- Medicare (United States)
- foundational text
- Social Security Amendments of 1965
- phone number
- +1-800-633-4227
- different from
- Medicaid
- social media followers
- 95300
- inception
- 1965-07-30
- contact page URL
- www.medicare.gov/talk-to-someone
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Medicare plans include the government plan and the privately run Medicare Advantage plan. Medicare Advantage bundles certain features from the government plan.
Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It started in 1965 under the Social Security Administration and is now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Medicare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.