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When Is Medicare Primary Or Secondary Payer of Health Care Costs?

July 13, 2017 By Kevin Knauss Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Medicare Tagged With: Coordination of Benefits, Medicare, Prescription Drug, Primary Payer, Secondary Payer

Blue Shield Medicare Supplement Prescription Drug Benefit Changes

September 20, 2016 By Kevin Knauss Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Blue Shield, Medicare, PDP Tagged With: Blue Shield, California, Coverage, Credible, Medicare, Prescription Drug, Supplement

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