DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2017 Issue 2 (February)
Retired spouse’s insurance should be secondary to Medicare — but check
Question: I have a patient who is on Medicare but was until recently also covered under his wife’s group health plan at work, which made Medicare his secondary payer. He tells me his wife recently retired. She has kept up the insurance for both of them, but our understanding (and the patient’s) is that in this case, the group plan should now be the secondary and Medicare the primary. Medicare doesn’t acknowledge it, though. What to do?
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