Medicare can be the secondary payer in situations where they don’t provide the primary health insurance coverage or when another insurer may have the primary responsibility for covering the claim. However, even when Medicare is the secondary payer, they still may not cover all of the remaining health care costs associated with the claim.
Blue Shield Medicare Supplement Prescription Drug Benefit Changes
We are notifying the members in the following closed plans that their prescription drug coverage will be considered non-creditable in 2017, which is a change from 2016, when their prescription drug coverage was considered creditable. This means that the coverage offered by their plan is not expected to pay out as much as standard Medicare prescription drug coverage pays.