Can You Choose Your Own Doctor With Medicare. If your doctor does not choose medicare assignment but allows for you to see them, the doctor can only charge 15% more than medicare’s negotiated rate. “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” (raise your hand if you’ve heard that one before.)

You can use any doctor or hospital that takes medicare, anywhere in the u.s. If the freedom to visit any provider who accepts medicare—in or out of our network—while still enjoying affordable and predictable copays is your priority, a ppo plan might be the right choice for you. You can join a separate medicare drug plan to get medicare drug coverage (part d).