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If a small group is in a PEO is medicare primary or secondary?
Medicare is always the primary insurance unless someone is still working
How do you get medicare as your primary insurance if you have horizons select as your primary you want to change?
You cannot decide which insurance is primary and which is secondary. Their is nothing you can do to determine this. Within each policy it specifies when each policy is primary or secondary. With Medicare, it is always going to be secondary to insurance provided by an employer or retirement plan.
If you are over 65 and have Medicare and medicaid is Medicare always primary?
Yes, Medicare is primary. Medicaid is always the payor of last resort.
When you have Medicare Part A Insurance and Supplemental coverage which is primary insurer?
Medicare
Would Medicare be your primary or secondary insurance?
We have Medicare and added on Anthem. Does that mean Medicare is primary (Paying 80 percent) , and Anthem is secondary?
Whose insurance is primary when husband is retired not on medicare and wife is working?
It the wife has her husband on her work insurance plan than that is his primary insurance. If he is not covered on her plan then he would need to buy his own insurance. Once he gets on Medicare that would become his primary insurance. If his wife is still working once he gets on Medicare the primary carrier is determined by how many people work for her company. If there are less than 100 employees then Medicare would be primary.
What is my primary insurance my husband's plan at work or medicare?
If you are covered under your husband's plan and he is working, his plan is primary to Medicare. If you are not covered under your husband's plan, Medicare is primary.
Can medicare be used for secondary insurance if the primary insurance is paid by your employer?
Medicare is primary if your group is under 20 lives. 20 lives or more and medicare is secondary to your employer paid group plan.
If you have medicare as your primary insurance how do you get your Medicaid to be the secondary?
Medicaid is always the payor of last resort. Before a Medicaid agency pays a bill for a Medicare beneficiary, they require documentation that Medicare has "adjudicated" the bill (i.e., decided whether to make payment and, if so, how much).
Do you obtain a authorization for secondary ins when medicare is primary?
after getting the payment from medicare (Primary) then secondary (X/Y/Insurance should pay even if there is no auth. And only this happens if secondary insurance follow medicare guidelines.
What kind of insurances does Securehorizons offer?
Secure Horizons offers medical insurance for Medicare. You can chose from Medicare Advantage which is similar to an HMO or Medicare Supplemental which will cover what your primary insurance will not.
My mother receives Blue Cross Blue Shield through a job which now pays her disability. She also is covered by medicare. Which insurance company is her primary insurance?
Blue Cross Blue Shield is primary and Medicare is secondary they will the BCBS first and then bill Medicare.
