Medicare Resources

Medicare Resources

Combine your Medicare and Medicaid Coverage

Health Share of Oregon provides your Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) coverage with the help of our five health plans. Some of our health plans offer Medicare plans for Health Share members who also have Medicare. When you have Medicare and Medicaid, Medicare is your primary health plan. Medicare includes things like visits to your primary care provider, hospital coverage, and prescription drugs. Medicaid covers things like dental care and rides to health care appointments. You can get better health care coordination if you have the same health plan that manages both your Medicare and Medicaid benefits.

There are many good things about having your Medicare and Medicaid benefits managed by the same health plan, including:

  • You can have one care management team who can help you get the care you need. They can also help connect you with different resources.
  • You can have the same providers deliver services covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
  • You can fill both your Medicare and Medicaid prescriptions at the same network pharmacy.
  • Customer service staff can address both your Medicare and Medicaid questions. This helps avoid confusion and hassle.

If you would like more information about your Medicaid plan’s Medicare plan, you can visit their website for more information or call them. They can also help you change your current Medicare plan.

CareOregon 

Kaiser Permanente 

PacificSource 

Providence

Do you have questions about Medicare and how it interacts with your Health Share coverage?  Read more on OHA’s website at https://www.oregon.gov/OHA/HSD/OHP/Pages/Medicare.aspx