Medicare Part G Supplimental Plan(s)

[Never2L8]

My husband went on plan G this year also. His first claim was from January and the MSN (and online) showed that $185 was applied to the deductible and he was responsible. The provider billed for that $185 in May. I'm guessing your provider's billing will catch up and bill you eventually.

[Telly]

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Originally Posted by REWahoo My experience is some providers can be months in submitting bills. What they typically do is first submit to Medicare and your supplement insurer, then once those two have paid the provider what they say they owe, the provider sends you an invoice for anything remaining you may owe. It can take a quite a while.

Me too.
I started to worry earlier this year about all of my (last years) Plan G deductible not being billed to me yet. After a while, I even tried to pay it at the Ophth. practice, and they wouldn't take my money. They said they had nothing to bill it against. They said it eventually would come through to them, then they would bill me. It eventually did.

Though the mills of Medicare grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small...

There's no rushing the Miller.

[travelover]

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Originally Posted by Telly ...........Though the mills of Medicare grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small... There's no rushing the Miller.

I talked with a couple retired docs recently and we got into the topic of Medicare payments. They both said they preferred Medicare to private insurers because of faster and surer payment, even if it was less. Private insurers, they said, bounced bills back again and again over coding, etc. and also squabbled with other insurers where there was any ambiguity on responsibility.

[trumpeting_angel]

My first EOB from Medicare said that the expense wasn’t covered, and it was paid in full and the deductible wasn’t charged. I spent a little while wringing my hands over this, then decided it wasn’t worth reading the 3 pages of fine print and doing research to figure out why. I’m on a Plan G supplement also, but this EOB was from Medicare itself.

I suppose I’ll have to be more proactive if there are complex bills to come, but I’m hoping not; that was one of my reasons for Plan G.