Q. If a patient under age 65 has Medicare due to a disability and then they turn 65, should we continue to answer the question of entitlement as "disabled" or should we then answer it as "age?"
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Published May 16, 2008
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Q. If a patient under age 65 has Medicare due to a disability and then they turn 65, should we continue to answer the question of entitlement as “disabled” or should we then answer it as “age?”
A. “Age” should be the entitlement once the patient turns 65. Source: Eugene Cepeda, senior consultant for Besler Consulting in Princeton, NJ, and Catherine Mosca, former senior manager for Besler Consulting, in
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