A nurse is explaining Medicaid and Medicare to a patient and describes the biggest difference in the programs as being the
a. duration of benefits.
b. health services provided.
c. level of administration.
d. waiting period for coverage.
C
Whereas Medicare is purely a federal administered program, Medicaid programs are administered by individual states.
The duration of benefits is dependent on meeting the criteria for inclusion.
Both programs cover specified health services, and both do determine coverage for health care services (set at the state level for Medicaid and the federal level for Medicare), but this is not the biggest difference in the two programs.
The waiting period for coverage is not a major differentiator between the two programs.
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