Tricare for life prescription question

In 47 years in this business I have never enrolled a Tricare for Life beneficiary in a MAPD.

you may have some clients who could be upset with you if another agent properly explains the potential benefit.Not everybody on tricare is wealthy and some do appreciate the extra benefits especially the premium rebate.again it has to be explained properly and their doctors have to be willing to bill tricare but it can definitely be value added for some tricare people.
 
client said it is a bit of hoop jumping at pharmacy counter to get them to run both rx plan.if this is what actually is happening i am surprised because i was always told there was not coordination between tricare rx and pdp
I am guessing they have to run one first (I don't know which one) and then the other one second after the first one has paid what it has paid. Clients with grants that pay for the medicare (D or MAP) copay for meds have to do it that way (eg run medicare first and then the grant Rx card for the copay).
 
you may have some clients who could be upset with you if another agent properly explains the potential benefit.Not everybody on tricare is wealthy and some do appreciate the extra benefits especially the premium rebate.again it has to be explained properly and their doctors have to be willing to bill tricare but it can definitely be value added for some tricare people.
He did not say that he has never enrolled a Tricare beneficiary in an MA-only plan. I can also read it the way you're taking it.

The meaning behind the written word can be tough to decipher. I'm giving some serious thought to bidding adieu to social media. I enjoyed life better before it.
 
I am guessing they have to run one first (I don't know which one) and then the other one second after the first one has paid what it has paid. Clients with grants that pay for the medicare (D or MAP) copay for meds have to do it that way (eg run medicare first and then the grant Rx card for the copay).
It would be the Part D run first; Tricare is secondary to Medicare.

@annon123 , I've asked this before but you are not in the business, correct?
 
You sure answer a lot of questions for being pretty new. Why do you do thate
There is only a very limited universe of kinds of questions I answer (some things I know about from my previous career). I also get, left over from when I used to teach business, health care administration, statistics, etc, newletters like the Becker newsletter (and others) where I tried then to keep up with what was happening in the health care field. Some of that is relevant to this field. I also find reading industry stuff (and fortunately, because of paywalls, I still have access to an academic library although not everything is in that either) helps me learn more that I need to know as does seeing what some people say on this forum. And some questions I am interested in that I don't know the answer to I go looking to see if I can find something credible that answers them for my own information. There is a sub group of people on here I wish I knew in "real life" as I sure could learn a lot from them. I learn a lot from them on here too.
 
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So what and where did you teach?
I taught at several universities and now some adjunct work at several more (although that is intermittent with enrollment down). I mostly taught management, strategy and entrepreneurship and occasionally HR (both in the college of business and in health care administration). Taught some intro to health care administration, and (both against my will) stats and intro to business analytics, leadership, ethics, negotiation and conflict resolution and organizational change, and probably more crap I have forgotten. I would have preferred to teach fewer different new classes as it is a lot of work for new preps and it takes several times teaching a class to really get good at it.
 
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