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Originally Posted by 784caroline

I may be mistaken but I think you have this backwards. If Medicare approves a charge, your secondary most likely will also approve any deductible or copay that needs to cover the entire bill. If Medicare disallows a charge, then your secondary insurance will review it for approval. I have had test or services disallowed by medicare but approved by BCBS at their rate.

That is not what the doctor and the hospital told me in August. They told me ithey are finding that if Medicare denies a claim that the secondary insurances are now automatically denying the claim. Both offices told me they started seeing this in July 2014. In October, I went to a Department on Aging Medicare briefing and she said the same thing.