No. Hasn’t happened to me.
Maybe you can build a stage backdrop with a Georgia street address.
I was just thinking of that “Simon Says” analogy minutes ago. Future generations will be playing “Dr. Fauci Says”.
They don’t have a medical license in ALABAMA
I wouldn’t know - I’m avoiding any medical facility as much as possible until the ‘rona has petered out.
Probably related to your Medicare policy.
Yes they are tracking via cell, car and cameras
Sounds like they have had an issue with insurance denying people near the state line.
The wo0nders of government healthcare!
I assume you checked that they have a form 27B/6?
They can’t do anything without a Form 27B/6...
The doctor is not licensed in Alabama. He can’t practice medicine, even tele-medicine, across state lines. He has to have reasonable evidence that he only conducts business in his state.
We have the same issues with some of our patients who live outside of our state.
Medical license issue
There are geolocators that apps can use to make sure you are in the right state but sounds like they dont use it.
Maybe the Dr is not licensed to practice medicine in Alabama?
Go to GA & buy a burner phone?
Crossing state boundaries via telemedicine initially and generally requires holding a license in each state where services are provided. Some states have joined telemedicine practice agreements.
This scenario is going in at my wife’s hospital where the hospital wants the staff to be licensed in the neighboring state so staff can call patients across state lines. Most states are in a compact where this isn’t necessary but Oregon isn’t one of them.
None of the staff want to do this.
I have never heard of this.
The only thing I can think of is if you are a Medicare patient they have strange requirements for getting reimbursement. In the Radiology end of things, and they have a thing called “Place of Read” so if a Radiologist is reading an exam from home, you have to tell Medicare where they were actually sitting when they interpreted the exam because they reimburse different amounts depending on where the “service” took place.
It might well be that if the “service” performed on you was over the phone, and it was out of state, there might be some bizarre infraction of Medicare regulations and guidelines.
With that in mind, any time you hear about “Medicare Fraud” and see some hospital getting dinged and having to return money to Medicare, keep in mind that most “fraud” isn’t “fraud” at all, it is an honest mistake where the facility simply wasn’t adhering to some guideline in the byzantine myriad of reams and reams of wonderful government regulations.
Kind of like what government does to us by legislating to death, and making so many laws that any one of us could be prosecuted at any time as a criminal because we were unknowingly in violation of two or three laws.
There was a big hospital in Boston some years back that the SCUM SEIU people went after because the hospital didn’t want to unionize, so the head of SEIU at the time said they were going to destroy the relationships between the physicians and their patients.
They parked a billboard truck across the street from the main entrance of the hospital for weeks, and the billboard said “X Hospital was implicated in Medicare Fraud and had to return X amount of dollars to Medicare”
Most people who have ever worked in medical billing know that health care providers have to refund money to Medicare all the time. Sometimes Medicare pays out more money to the health care provider.
Usually it is because, after the fact or in the course of some billing inquiry of some kind, the hospital sees they did something wrong, and contact Medicare and Medicare says “send us this much more money and fix the problem so it doesn’t happen again.
You always want to find the issue and report it to Medicare. You NEVER want to have Medicare find an issue and bring it to YOUR attention, though I believe it happens.
So when the SEIU aholes put that board out in front of that hospital...I doubt it was real fraud, because the hospital has a good reputation for quality. More like SEIU scum lying through their teeth being the Leftist turds they are.
You found out what you needed to know. Don’t let them steal more money from you with senseless follow-ups that are simply there to line their pockets.
When they call again, confirm the follow-up then, the day before the appointment, call and cancel. After that, every time they want to reschedule, tell them that day doesn’t work for you. Eventually, they’ll lose interest.
Unless you cut the cord, these guys will schedule endless follow-up visits so they can collect their co-pays and tell you the same bs you already know.
The system is rigged to vacuum as much money from you as possible. You have to take control and cut them off like drunks at a bar. At least, that’s my free advice.
sounds like just some routine bureaucracy, However bring guns, ammo and tasers just in case, it also sounds suspect.
I haven’t had an endoscopy for a couple of years now. I’m due because I have GERD and Barrett’s esophagus. My doctor will do endoscopy and colonoscopy at the same time, even though he only gets paid for one procedure. Normally he stops by my bedside while I’m recovering to talk to me about his findings, and gives me the pictures he took during the endoscopy. I can’t see him making any changes to that. The Gastroenterology group he belongs to has their own building in which all procedures are done. It beats having to go sit at the hospital anymore. I live in Central New York State.
I have been in and out of the hospital since May with liver failure. I have been given the covid test six times, which were all negative. I was even told I would be registered with the CDC. It was really upsetting but there was nothing I could do about it.