Local GP'S and many specialists do Not accept this card. Also you are restricted on living in a cheaper country as there is a days limit per year and if you exceed the days you lose coverage. I was very disappointed at how few doctors and specialists accept this card.
While they may not directly give discounts for holders of this card, the fact that this card makes you eligible for lower Medicare Safety Net Thresholds means that you should still benefit when going to local GPs and specialists if you visit frequently enough to exceed $811.80 of gap payments in a year.
Jump to the six minute mark (no, I don't know how to do a short-cut). You can see eligibility and determine if you're wasting your time watching the rest of it, as I fortunately am. Putting all of the links to each States different scheme (thanks Federation) in the description would have been helpful (and no, I'm not going to type them all for you here). I jumped at Deeming.
Local GP'S and many specialists do Not accept this card. Also you are restricted on living in a cheaper country as there is a days limit per year and if you exceed the days you lose coverage. I was very disappointed at how few doctors and specialists accept this card.
While they may not directly give discounts for holders of this card, the fact that this card makes you eligible for lower Medicare Safety Net Thresholds means that you should still benefit when going to local GPs and specialists if you visit frequently enough to exceed $811.80 of gap payments in a year.
Jump to the six minute mark (no, I don't know how to do a short-cut). You can see eligibility and determine if you're wasting your time watching the rest of it, as I fortunately am. Putting all of the links to each States different scheme (thanks Federation) in the description would have been helpful (and no, I'm not going to type them all for you here). I jumped at Deeming.