I got an email the other day saying that Medicare will not pay for a hospital visit if your personal doctor does not admit you. It stated that if you are admitted from the Emergency room medicare won’t pay.
Now I don’t know the truth of this, but if Doctors wont take you and you are forced to the Emergency room it looks like that could be a problem.
Was that an email from Medicare, your insurance company, or some random rant forwarded from who knows who?
“I got an email the other day saying that Medicare will not pay for a hospital visit if your personal doctor does not admit you. It stated that if you are admitted from the Emergency room medicare won’t pay.”
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That makes no sense.
I had a stroke last June and called 911,therefore I was admitted through the emergency room. According to the info you posted I would have been in big trouble. Medicare covered everything.
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I am a hospitalist (a physician that sees only hospitalized patients) and this is most emphatically not true. I supposed some forms of managed Medicare could try to make that rule but it would never stick. It is illegal to deny people emergency care
Wonder how that works if you are arrive by ambulance due to trauma or something like a heart attack or stroke; imagine folks on gurneys in the hallway waiting for their own doctor to come admit them. We should not be surprised, the health care system is now managed by people who know nothing about actual health care.