Medicare email about Coronavirus

[stopbush]

New information about Medicare and the Coronavirus
medicare dot gov
Take preventive action now against COVID-19
According to the CDC, older adults and people who have severe chronic medical conditions like heart, lung or kidney disease are at a higher risk of serious illness if they contract the COVID-19 virus. This means that most people with Medicare are at a higher risk.

Your health, safety, and welfare is our highest priority. In addition to practicing good everyday prevention through things such as hand washing and avoiding touching your face, the CDC says there is more you can do to take precautions against COVID-19 and reduce your risk of exposure:

Avoid crowds, especially in poorly ventilated spaces with limited air circulation.
Defer all cruise ship travel worldwide, particularly if you also have underlying health issues.
Avoid situations that put you at increased risk, including non-essential travel such as long plane trips.
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Remember: Medicare covers the lab tests for COVID-19 — you pay no out-of-pocket costs. And Medicare also covers all medically necessary hospitalizations.

For more information about Medicare and COVID-19, visit Medicare.gov.

Sincerely,

The Medicare Team

Note: For the latest information on the coronavirus, including travel advisories, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For more, see here: https://www.medicare.gov/medicare-coronavirus

[Rorey]

1. Thank you

I'm not the panicking type of person, but I'm getting increasingly concerned. I'm not so much worried about my own mortality, but I'm worried about how the loss of me will affect my children. They're all adults, of course, and I know they'll help each other get through life.

What I'm more worried about is that if/when I get COVID-19, what kind of long-term damage will it do to my lungs, and how will that impact the rest of my life. I don't want to be a burden to my family.

[Chainfire]

2. Paying for hospitalization is one thing

Finding an available room could be another thing. If things get really out of hand, you will just have to stay home and die quietly.

[SmartVoter22]

3. Medicare does not send out emails

They communicate on paper and use USPS mail.
You can, however, create an online account, if you are a program recipient where messages are provided. And you can specifically accept emails from them for issues that involve only you and your benefits.

I would not trust any mass email from Medicare.

Signed " The Medicare team"??? WTF?

[stopbush]

5. The same verbiage appears at the Medicare.gov website:

https://www.medicare.gov/medicare-coronavirus

And, yes, they do send out emails if - like me - you have set up an online account and requested email notifications.

[Mariana]

7. You might want to edit and put this information and the link in your OP.

Thank you for sharing it.

[Raven]

8. Yes they do. With health advice like AARP does from time to time.

[SmartVoter22]

10. Then don't validate suspect emails

If I get an email, from any governmental agency, or it wants to appear as such; I go directly to the official website of that agency.
I google the agency, not click on a link in a suspect email.
If you want to take 100% of what you read, in any email, as absolute fact without checking it and finding other credible sources that can validate the content... go ahead and do that.
I won't.

I have benefited from Medicare for well over a decade and never got emails. I have an account at Medicare now, and I have received two emails from them. One to validate my email and the other showing me how to use my account. It only tells me to login to get information and inside the website, will I find alerts, messages, advisories, etc.

[stopbush]

11. Why so defensive? Why not just admit you were wrong about Medicare sending emails

and let it drop?

[MiniMe]

4. But do they cover the test?

And can they even get the test?

Was this little missive from "The Medicare Team" even dated?

[stopbush]

6. Yes. They cover the test.

The email was dated Tuesday.

[crickets]

9. Thank you for posting this information. K&R