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To: Kennard
Couldn’t a patient use Medicare and then top it up with an additional cash payment to satisfy Mayo’s requirements? Or is that not allowed under the Medicare program?

This is illegal under medicare. This is called balance billing and if a physician does this, he is subject to $10,000 fine per incident and 2 years in prison for each occurence. So the government literally holds us at the point of a gun, nice, eh?

29 posted on 12/31/2009 4:31:13 PM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: gas_dr

Welcome to Menglecare. Thank all your Obama voting friends out there. When the rest of America grows a pair and we decide to take back the country, make sure to kick each of them in the groin as a reminder of what this bastard has done to our country and tell them the are getting off lucky.


32 posted on 12/31/2009 4:39:22 PM PST by dumpthelibs (dumpthelibs)
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To: gas_dr

the doc and patient can privately contract to get a larger payment but it is a bitch to do.


42 posted on 12/31/2009 6:44:48 PM PST by cajungirl
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To: gas_dr

the doc and patient can privately contract to get a larger payment but it is a bitch to do.


43 posted on 12/31/2009 6:44:56 PM PST by cajungirl
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