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To: Neeka who wrote (339514)	12/21/2009 7:41:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 794298

Not being any where near the age to collect Medicare, I haven't paid much attention. You say the docs are reimbursed 1/4 to 1/5 of the amount of the bill and that your supplement doesn't pay for much of it either, so my question to you is, do you make up the difference out of your own pocket? No, it's illegal to charge a Medicare patient beyond the specified co-pays of their plan. If Medicare denies treatment, patients are not allowed to pay for it out of pocket. What happens today is cost-shifting. The doctors overcharge the private patients to make up the difference.

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