Posted on 04/14/2014 5:08:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
Obamacare patients who go to their doctors for a free annual checkup are finding out that they may have to pay for the preventive healthcare visit after all.
They are angry to learn that if they mention past or ongoing health concerns during the physical, that can result in co-pays and deductibles, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Under the Affordable Care Act, preventive care includes screenings for high blood pressure and high cholesterol counts, evaluations for several cancers and diabetes, and vaccinations. The patient is allowed, in most cases, one checkup per year.
But "wellness" care on potential new health issues is viewed as "evaluation and monitoring," and leads to patients having to fork out for the "free" annual physical.
"Patients are scheduling physicals because physicals are free," Randy Wexler, a family physician in Columbus, Ohio, told the Journal. "But they come in and say, 'I've been having headaches. My back has been bothering me, and I'm depressed.' That's not part of a physical. That will trigger a copay."
Wexler says they are not happy about the charges. "They'll say, 'I have diabetes and hypertension and heart disease and seeing you is preventing them from getting worse, so that should be fully covered,'" he said. "But under that theory, everything would be free with no copay."
Doctors told the Journal that seniors have started canceling their annual wellness visits under their Medicare plans when they learn that if they mention a current health issue during the checkup they will likely be charged a co-pay.
Some doctors are even warning patients in advance of the problem and ask them to schedule two visits, one for the "annual" and another for their current health issue, according to the Journal.
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Go to your doctor and say you're here for your "free" annual checkup. If he asks you ANY question whatsoever, just say you can't discuss that with him. Name and serial number only, that's it.
Just say you want your free stuff and that's it.
Now, how is he going to know which diagnostic test to order if he you can't tell him any of your medical information? He won't. Just say you want them all. Every single test that is free whether it applies to you or not, just get it. But don't give ANY medical information at all about yourself
Sounds like really good healthcare to me.
You voted for it America.
You called me a racist when I tried to warn you.
Now you can all kiss my ass.
Thy’re only angry because they have to pay.They were perfectly fine with someone else having to pay for their check-up.
I'm ready to quit it altogether as soon as I can get a line on a local co-op. I'll make out like a bandit paying the annual penalty.
A whole bunch of really stupid people are about to find out there’s no such thing as free lunch.
The lure of possible freebies has foisted the obamanation of Obamacare on all off us. We have become the United States of free stuff. A pox on them all.
They can blame it on Obama, if they can get their heads out of their asses long enough to see the truth.
Wait until they get the bills for the blood tests. There will be charges from doctors whom they never met.
The ACA collects all your personal info when you sign up for it. That’s how the doc gets paid, the lab, the hospital...
You have to probably give a card to show you have ACA. I’m sure they have a medical record on you from any previous visits to anywhere.
Where’s my free cell phone?!!!
I truly believe our Republic died when the Supreme Court ruled Obamacare legal.
Even if the law is repealed, our Congress STILL has the power to make us buy ANYTHING - even against our will.
If the Obamadork:
Speaks - he lies.
Sleeps - he lies.
Winks - he lies.
Writes a biography - he lies many many times...to include the verb “writes”.
Shows his birth certificate - he lies.
Tries to demonstrate intelligence - he lies (very badly).
Claims he is anything other than a Muslim - face it, libs, he LIES.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
The “annual checkup” can be run from a home computer with a couple of USB sensors.
Doctors told the Journal that seniors have started canceling their annual wellness visits under their Medicare plans when they learn that if they mention a current health issue during the checkup they will likely be charged a co-pay.
Just wait till these seniors find out they won’t be able to get knee/hip replacements or heart surgery or cancer treatment.
Go in for a colonoscopy under Obamacare it is free unless they find a polyp and they remove it now it becomes a surgical procedure and subject to not your co pay as it used to be but goes against your deductible....enjoy America.
“if they mention past or ongoing health concerns during the physical, that can result in co-pays and deductibles,”
Why would you want to mention ongoing health concerns in an annual physical. I mean cmon these are for a checkup not for treatment.
/s for the s impaired.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Free S-— isn’t Free after all.
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