This can only be one of two things:
a) Your doctor only a very small percentage of medicare patients he sees and limits the number of new medicare patients
b) or you just like making bullshit statements for the sake of making them.
Fine, and with that, seniors have been paying into medicare all their lives and most seniors are on it with a supplement. They don't even use private insurance because they don't work. It's rare to see a senior on 100% private insurance, though it happens.
Medicare rant - its getting bad
My wife works for a local doctor, the majority of the doctors business is elderly people on medicare.
A couple of days ago medicare sent the doctor a letter saying some of the procedures he did as far back as 2009 were unnecessary, and medicare wants their money back.
Before the procedures were done, someone from the office called medicare to get pre-approval. Medicare approved the procedures and the surgery was done.
The procedures in question were hip and knee replacements.
Think about that for a minute. Medicare approves procedure, 3 years later wants their money back. Why wait 3 years? Why not deny the procedures when they were pre-approved?
One of the ladies at the office is having to go through the records, and fax everything over to medicare to justify the procedure yet again. The office already did this when the patient was approved for the surgery.
This can only be one of two things:
a) Your doctor only a very small percentage of medicare patients he sees and limits the number of new medicare patients
b) or you just like making bullshit statements for the sake of making them.
My vote is for b
Trust me, no one dies for profit here, its the other way around. I could give examples but I can't violate Hippa laws.
Good
A step in the right direction towards destroying Republican opposition to Universal Healthcare for Americans.
Good
A step in the right direction towards destroying Republican opposition to Universal Healthcare for Americans.
Private insurers do this sort of thing all the time. My wife got a botox injection for her migraine headaches. Because the procedure is generally used cosmetically, there often isn't coverage. However, the doctor submitted it to Blue Cross and got it pre-approved. They then denied coverage after the procedure was done. We're still fighting with them over it 9 months later. There should be some sort of law that once something is pre-approved, it cannot be later denied absent a finding of fraud. It should apply to Medicare and private insurance both.
Anyone who is denied for pre-existing conditions or anyone of the 40 million uninsured will die instead of getting care.
All of these problems with Medicare and some people want the government to be MORE involved with health care? Yikes.
All insurance is a PIA at times. The difference is degree. If you talk with people in billing they cringe at private insurance but rant when a government entity is mentioned. It was so bad in NY that the state threw in the towel and farmed 3/4 of Medicaid claims to private concerns. Within a month the system was running better than ever.
Still, the system as a whole needs a lot of work but the consensus seems to be to impliment first and see what happens.
No, they'll just fill up emergency rooms and make care that much more expensive for everyone that does have insurance.
Emergency rooms will not fix chronic conditions. They will die because they are not getting proper and regular treatment. However, what ER visits they do use will be paid by the taxpayer, so that part is correct.
Go back in your bunker and spoon with your Cheney doll...
All of these problems with Medicare and some people want the government to be MORE involved with health care? Yikes.
My mom went to the Hospital a month ago (she is fine now) but the Ambulance ride with 2 Paramedics to the Hospital less than 2 miles away got billed to Medicare at $960. That is what is wrong with the system.
Yes, private insurance is SO problem-free, cost-effective, free of corruption, providing what the country needs with 40 million uninsured, etc. With voters like you...
My mom went to the Hospital a month ago (she is fine now) but the Ambulance ride with 2 Paramedics to the Hospital less than 2 miles away got billed to Medicare at $960. That is what is wrong with the system.