To: Fu-fu2
My dear departed mother-in-law spent the last few months of her life trying to correct all the Medicare overbilling for things she did not receive which showed up on her medical bills, all to no avail.
Look at the other side when they retroactively down-code patient visits. No explanation. No rational. Try to figure out how a complex first patient visit with an emerging neurodegenerative disease is changed to a follow up visit. Try to figure out why "government mandates" do not permit lower payment costs for "cash paying" patients. Insane? An example would be an uninsured new patient coming in for the first visit. The charge for example is $170. The exact same Medicaid patient will be reimbursed at $30 (billed at $170). Insane?
The government created this mess. Obama's solution? More government. I am just so sick of this. I have watched my dedicated wife for twenty-three years put up with this garbage. I have seen the mountains of paperwork. Paperwork! Unless your a practicing physician you have no idea what that word means. Government mandated paperwork! Insane paperwork! Useless paperwork! Paperwork that does not even produce a widget! Paperwork that serves no worldly purpose but to employ some overfed government bureaucrat! Paperwork that takes resources away from patient care paperwork!
I will stop now. Consider that the end of part one of my spitting angry fit. Thank you for listening to my rant.
1,399 posted on
07/22/2009 8:29:21 PM PDT by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: PA Engineer
You are entitled to rant, my friend! We all are, and would be if more were aware of how the “system” works! I can’t even listen to the political garbage spewing out of my television tonight, passing for a press conference!
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