TRICARE and medicare coordinate benefits in the squo, specifically at military facilties – normal means doesn’t change that
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TRICARE works with Medicare to help reduce your medical expenses. The exact way TRICARE coordinates benefits with Medicare depends upon the TRICARE program you are currently enrolled in.
This briefly highlights the Medicare and TRICARE coordination of benefits:
If you’re still active in the military, TRICARE will generally pay for Medicare-covered healthcare services. TRICARE also sometimes pays for healthcare costs that Medicare doesn’t fully cover.
Retired members of TRICARE for life should expect Medicare to pay first for anything that it covers. In this case, TRICARE for Life usually works more like supplemental insurance. TRICARE makes an exception to this and pays for services from military or federal healthcare facilities, even if they would be covered by Medicare at another facility.