Question

Mr. Schmidt would like to plan for retirement and has asked you what is covered under Original Fee-for-Service (FFS) Medicare? What could you tell him?

Answer 1

About Original Fee-for-Service (FFS) Medicare:

The original Fee-for-Service (FFS) Medicare is Medicare service where government will pay directly for the health care service.

The Medicare is health scheme which is available for people living in the United States and who going to attain at the age of 60 years. For those people who want to enroll must enroll three months before their 60th birthday in this scheme.

This scheme is also called as traditional Medicare scheme or original fee-for-service health scheme.  

Under this scheme you can visit any doctor or hospital anywhere in America who accepts Medicare scheme. The federal health department will pay the bill for the service rendered by the hospital.