Medicaid + Tricare. Help!
So, last year my husband and I were enrolled in Tricare due to orders he was being put on. I have had Healthy Blue (Medicaid) in Louisiana since before we got married, and confirmed with Medicaid at that time that I still qualified for my health plan (when we got married). When we got Tricare, I did not report it to Medicaid, but for some reason I don't recall, I did contact a Tricare rep. and confirm that it was okay to be dually enrolled. I guess at the time I thought they communicated with each other or something. Unfortunately I really am uneducated about these things and I find it really annoying that we don't get taught about these systems in our great American public school system. I don't remember why I didn't inform Medicaid of the change, I was just telling doctors that I had both, and that wasn't giving me any issues. I think they were just billing Tricare as primary and Medicaid was covering the remainder, and in the case of doctors that didn't take Tricare, such as in the case of my therapist, they just billed Medicaid. Well, now that I had a renewal due for Medicaid this month, and it asked about other insurance, I included information about my Tricare coverage. The issue that arises is that my therapist could see what insurances I reportedly had in her system with Medicaid, and Tricare just now showed up. She is concerned that Medicaid is going to give me issues with the fact that they haven't known to bill Tricare as primary, and that they might want their money back so to speak. She doesn't accept Tricare, so she wouldn't have been able to bill them and get denial in order for Medicaid to pay, anyway. Our Tricare ends in December and I could unenroll now if need be, it's really not helpful as its hard to find places near me that accept it, but I don't know how this thing is gonna go. Will Medicaid hash it out with Tricare, and then contact me, or what? I'm pregnant and in college so the looming thought of an unexpected and likely huge medical bill is very stressful. I feel like a fraudulent idiot and I'd really like to know what I can do to resolve this. I know I should have reported an official change to Medicaid, now, but I didn't know, or at least even think about it, back then. What can I do?
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