Medicare provides payment for hospital care, long-term care, and pharmaceutical, physician, and other services to which groups?

• A. Hospital care
• B. Long-term care
• C. Pharmaceutical, physician, and other services
• D. All of the above

Answer: (D)

Medicare covers a broad set of services for people it serves. It provides hospital inpatient care (Part A), offers limited long-term care through skilled nursing facility services after a qualifying hospital stay, and covers outpatient services including physician care and medications (Part B and Part D for drugs). The groups eligible for Medicare are people aged 65 and older and certain younger individuals with disabilities or End-Stage Renal Disease. Because Medicare spans hospital, some long-term care, prescription drugs, and physician/other services for those eligible, the option that includes all of these areas best reflects what the program pays for.