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To: Lane3 who wrote (129129)	1/24/2010 7:34:56 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 542131

Here's another Medicare anecdote. This one has nothing to do with choice. It's just a curious tidbit that offers opportunity for fraud. (No, Mary, it's not a criticism of Medicare, just an observation.) In the two years that I have been with Medicare I have been freed of liability for paying bills that IMO were legitimately mine to pay. They were all mistakes by providers who failed to officially notify me at the time of service that Medicare might not pay them. That makes them uncollectible. The providers could not legally take my money should I offer it to them. It took me two incidents to figure out how that works. After three incidents, I'm ahead at least several hundred dollars. A less honest person could intentionally work that feature. (A less lazy and distracted person would take affirmative action to see that it doesn't happen again, as I'm sure it will.)

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