Medicare is a type of health care insurance created by the federal government for older persons, as well as people with specific disabilities and illnesses. If an individual that has Medicare needs rehab for instances of substance abuse, their treatment will either be covered fully by their Medicare health insurance or to a significant extent. The one catch is, the individual will need to obtain treatment from your drugs and alcohol detox facility which accepts Medicare. Before the individual will be allowed to begin treatment, they will also have to visit their primary care physician who must state that rehab services are medically necessary, and the physician will usually approve what sort of rehabilitation the individual will take part in. Medicare Part An and Part B cover several types of rehab providers. Medicare Part A covers an inpatient stay in a Medicare accepted center in the event that the individual must be in a hospital because of their issue, and also the costs that they will have to cover personally are identical to any other stay in a hospital. Medicare Part B will partly cover outpatient rehab within a Medicare accepted program, and the individual will need to cover whatever Part B doesn't pay for with supplement insurance or they've got to self pay.