Hassle-Free Health Coverage: Comprehensive Plan Covered Services
Comprehensive plans vary, but generally cover the same kinds of services. Some of these include:
- professional services of doctors of medicine and osteopathy and other recognized medical practitioners;
- hospital charges for semiprivate room and board and other necessary services and supplies;
- surgical charges;
- services of registered nurses and, in some cases, licensed practical nurses;
- home health care;
- physical therapy;
- anesthetics and their administration;
- x-rays and other diagnostic laboratory procedures;
- x-ray or radium treatment;
- oxygen and other gases and their administration;
- blood transfusions, including the cost of blood when charged;
- medicine requiring a prescription;
- specified ambulance services;
- rental of durable mechanical equipment required for therapeutic use;
- artificial limbs and other prosthetic appliances, except replacement of such appliances;
- casts, splints, braces and crutches;
- rental of a wheelchair or hospital bed.
