The Medicare safety net is designed to provide people or families with additional financial relief for high medical costs by reducing their out of pocket costs. When an individual or family receives different services in a year, the Medicare safety net limits their out of pocket costs for services received out-of-hospital. To be eligble for the Medicare safety net you have to be registered with Medicare and hold a Medicare card.  So how exactly does the MSN or Medicare Safety Net work? So when a single or a family’s “gap” payments exceed the certain threshold amount in a calendar year, 100% of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) fee for out-of-hospital services is given …