Medicare = Tricare? --> RE: Opting out of Medicare

[Guest guest]

This does raise the question -- if I take Medicare, am I automatically on

the panel for Tricare?

I saw an out of town patient who was in the Coast Guard and had Tricare.

I was thinking it was going to be a hassle to bill the patient, but should I

have just seen the patient like a Medicare patient?

How does that work?

Locke, MD

Opting out of Medicare

Does anyone know if opting out of Medicare also means that you cannot see

Tricare Standard patients as well? There was brief mention of this in the

Jan 08 FP Management article titled " Does Primary care Need Medicare? "