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Old 03-27-2010, 10:28 PM
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We are on Medicare and Tricare4Life and have found that the med providers do no business with Tricare as they deal solely with Medicare and Tricare is the secondary who deals only with Medicare.

In other words, the dr's don't recognize Tricare at all, just Medicare. Provider sends bill to Medicare and Medicare automatically forwards to Tricare. Therefore, all you have to do is chose a dr that will take Medicare.

Hope this helps....barb
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