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RoadXYZ
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Apr 28, 2013

Traveling across Canada & Northern USA .. Medicare issues ?

We are trying to plan a trip across Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and the Great Lakes States .. maybe even New Brunswick.

Has anyone planned such a trip knowing that they may have issues with filling their med scripts and/or medical visits, while on Medicare Supplement Plans and Walmart RX Part D ?

This trip may not be in our future .. our sons live in Toronto and Virginia .. we would like to fill in the "states visited map" on the side of our RV AND visit our sons at the same time.

We made this trip 2008-2010 time-frame before but missed going thru the states in the first paragraph. We didn't even consider the Medicare issue then as we were only in Canada for the month of July. Maybe it is because we are older now and have a couple of maintenance meds that we are thinking of the medical issues.

BTW we are not asking "should we do it" ; we are asking if anyone has done such a trip and if there are some issues we have not thought of .. ?

On Edit : we are full-timers but will be taking the 18' small TT we have instead of our "home TT" ..

5 Replies

  • Which Medicare supplement do you have? Most will cover under the supplement if you are out of the USA. Only the cheapest ones don't give this coverage. Get a 90 day supply of prescriptions and you will be set for the time in Canada.
  • Order them sent to your home address and have a friend Fed ex them to a planned rv campgroung
  • We just figure we need to go back to the USA for meds if we run out, and if we get sick. We are not usually more than one day the border.
  • Medicare coverage in Canada is very-very limited. See CMS for details.

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