Posted on 10/01/2013 11:47:01 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
October 01, 2013
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RUSH: Martin in Cadillac, Michigan, as we start on the phones. I promised we'd go to the phones and we're gonna do it. Hi, Martin. Glad to have you here.
CALLER: Thank you for taking my phone call, Rush.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: As I mentioned to the screener, as of October 1st, as part of the Medicaid expansion in the state of Michigan, the Health and Human Services mandate is that any doctor who is not a Medicaid enrolled provider -- if he writes in the labs, x-rays, or prescriptions, Medicaid will not reimburse for those at all.
RUSH: Okay. Tell me that in plain English. What does that mean?
CALLER: What that means is that if a patient... I am not a Medicaid enrolled provider. I've chosen not to participate in Medicaid.
RUSH: Because you want to get paid for your work, right?
CALLER: I want to get paid. It doesn't even pay to mess with that.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: The bureaucracy is overwhelming, and I see those patients, I bill them, and they either pay me what they can or I don't get paid at all. I see them because that's what my commission here is to do. It's to take care of people.
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Hahahaha!
Heard this segment....thought it was terrible. Rush missed the MAIN point the Doctor was trying to make. He slipped it in after the next commercial break....someone obviously emailed him....
Like Mark Levin said so well. We patriots are going to suffer as a result of Obamacare. But you liberals are going to get your teeth kicked in. ALL THREE OF THEM.”
I missed the call. What was the main point the caller was trying to make?
The main point was government dictating to doctors how they must practice and dictating to patients what doctors they must not visit - that the government was basically disenfranchising the practice of certain doctors.
These same patients would be covered under medicare if they were good little sheep and visited doctors who are good little sheep.
Scripts written by a doc not in the system will not be reimbursed by the insurance provider.
I see. Thanks!
Like all those GM and Chrysler car dealerships?
Imagine you have a Doc you like but who doesn’t accept your insurance so you pay him out of pocket. If he writes you a script for a drug ordinarily covered by your insurance it will not be covered. If he sends you for an xray at a facility that accepts your insurance it will not be covered. It makes a mockery of choice.
A lot like the GM and Chrysler dealers - yep. Very disappointing Rush missed the main point. He made a valid point, but not one that pertained to the specific issue the caller was making.
AFAIK UK has similar constraints on doctors. Unless a doctor is enrolled in the socialized healthcare, the patient does not get reimbursed by the system.
Medicare pays so little, it is a wonder the doctor still sees me and the hospital still admits me.
I recently had a short visit to a hospital, had various tests done but no treatment required. The bill was $2900.
Medicare approved $450 and they paid $325. I was responsible for the remaining $125.
Every time we have moved to a new city, there is a serious dearth of doctors who accept new Medicare patients.
I have no firsthand knowledge of Medicaid, but have to conclude it pays same or even less to doctors & hospitals.
It is not Medicare it is Medicaid. I have no problem with them finally paying for their own medicine. Especially since they complained about paying 50 cents for it before and always want to ‘charge it’.
Hey, Obama voters, how does it feel to get screwed by your beloved messiah?!
“any doctor who is not a Medicaid enrolled provider”
government funded provider, not individual personal insurance providers
Most Medicaid patients will just go to the hospital where they usually go anyway and skip waiting in a doctor’s office.
If these doctors are legally certified and licensed, then their prescriptions should be redeemable anywhere.
-PJ
perhaps, but doesn’t impact the main point.
I think it probably is an anti trust violation, among others. It’s new....it will be tested.
You are also missing the point. The main point of the caller, and of the call itself, was the disenfranchisement of the doctor’s ability to practice medicine. It was not about all of his potential theoretical patients and whether or not they deserve to have the medicaid or medicare coverage.
That is a valid issue, but a totally different issues. See ball. Keep eye on it
“RUSH: No, I’m being facetious of course. Your practice will survive. You’ll find people that don’t want to play this game. Can you imagine, you might have to pay for your own prescription. (Gasp!) No! “
i don’t see the humor. Some of those scripts out there are a few hundred a month. Some of the people getting those now will be forced to change doctors just so they can afford meds.
I don’t see an a/t issue. The prescription can be filled anywhere as long as the patient pays for it. If the patient wants to charge it to the insurance company (Medicaid in this case) it has to be written by one of the doctors who takes Medicaid. It’s a parallel with HMO or PPO requirements that you use one of the doctors who contracts with them if you wish to have them cover the bill.
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