Medicare With Champva

[deanbrt]

this may be one Berta can answer since I think she uses both. My wife is currently using a Medicare Advantage provider. But with her now eligible for CHAMPVA. My thought is with re-enrollment next month she should go back to the traditional Medicare A&B to use CHAMPVA in conjunction with CHAMPVA. Yes or no? She submitted her enrollment papers to CHAMPVA last month.

[john999]

If you have private insurance or medicare ChampVA is the secondary payer. My wife has not had that much trouble getting ChampVA to pay. We have to work sometimes to get the provider to bill ChampVA.

[deanbrt]

Thanks . That is the way I read it. medicare will be primary.One of her big benefits will be no co-pays for meds if she orders online?

[Ethan'sGrandma]

deanbrt,

Are they allowing online ordering of meds now? I use the meds by mail program, but the prescriptions are submitted by mail, unless the online is a newer system that I'm not aware of. I've been using both (Medicare & Champva) for years and have never had a problem in claims being paid.

[deanbrt]

You are right. You can phone in the refill but there is no online ordering like the VA.