BC Advantage - 2007 Issue 7

Medicare as a Secondary Payor and the Working Aged

A patient comes in for medical care and they give their Medicare card and a health insurance card with Insurance X.  A copy is made of both cards and a claim is submitted, but to which insurance is the claim sent?  Some may say that the claim goes to Insurance X first and then to Medicare as secondary.  Some may say that the claim goes to Medicare and then to Insurance X.  The answer may be both because today, things are not so simple when it comes to health coverage.  Providers and Medical Billers...

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