What is being discussed is whether the surgeons and the hospital will be permitted to send Medicare (i.e. taxpayers) the bill.
It's important to recognize that these are two different things.
There may be a difference here....but it encourages the same END result (pun intended).
Nothing to worry about then is there.
I would say that I believed you, but I would be lying.
If the health committee decides not to bill Medicare for the procedure, and the patient cannot afford to pay his own money, then won’t the so-called “comfort care” be inevitable, unless the surgeon does the procedure pro bono?
CMS does not pay bill one and never has, it would go to one of the medicare advantage plans or a cms contracted payor.guess who deny the most medicare claims received?? it aint the medicare advantage plans
If they don’t send Medicare the bill, somebody’s not covered and they’ll end up dead. As long as there are lots of dead baby boomers and veterans, it doesn’t matter what the process is to get there.