How to file your claim with secondary insurance after Medicare has processed.

While Medicare does provide many answers to people who need insurance coverage and must have the coverage to survive, it does not always have all of the answers.  What you must do is know enough about how the process works in order to keep yourself and your medical insurance going.  Here is how to file a claim with your secondary insurance if Medicare doesn’t pay the full claim the first time around.

First, you should contact your secondary insurance company and see if they will give you the name for a contact that handles secondary claims after Medicare. This person should give you an idea of how the process works and what will be required of you in this situation.  However, there will be times when you call the other company and they do not have a contact for the secondary insurance claims, don’t let this company off the hook too easy.

Explain your situation to your Medicare secondary insurance company and advise them that you need assistance in filing your secondary claims.  They should give you instructions at this time to make the process as routine as possible.  Once you have all of the information that you need from your secondary insurer there will be no excuses for not getting things done.

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