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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16545)	4/9/2010 6:07:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

I gave you the Medicare link...can't do better than that. Sure you can. At least you can try. You can read the link you gave me. From that link and following your own instructions you will find: "Routine physical exams are not covered by Medicare." (However they will be under HCR. Don't know how soon.) You doctor wasn't paid for a phone call...?? Did she bill you? Are you on Medicare? Was it because I offered no numbers that you couldn't infer all that from my post? <g> No, she can't bill me. No, she won't be paid by Medicare. Yes, sadly, I am on Medicare. Why would you need an appt to get RX refills... I don't. She does. Like I wrote, I do that "so she can make some money off the transaction." Medicare won't pay her unless I go to the office and it's illegal for me to pay her. I feel bad when she gets so little. So I churn the system on her behalf to compensate. But are you billed for the blood test itself? Either Medicare pays or Blue Cross pays. I have never yet had to pay. (I might have had to pay a couple of times but the lab forgot to have me sign their statement acknowledging that Medicare might not pay so it was illegal for the lab to bill me or for me to pay so they had to eat it.) Blood tests I understand a reason for appt. to review results with him sometimes, not all the time. I go on my own initiative. Mostly it's to pick up a copy of the results. Her office won't mail them. Recently I left some self-addressed stamped envelopes in my file so that they could be mailed at minimal cost to her and her receptionist agreed. She's a gerontologist. Almost all of her patients are Medicare. It's a tough business and getting tougher. From the article: "For instance, telephone calls or e-mail with doctors, along with regular, routine preventive health exams, are not covered" From you: "Not so......Telephone calls? I've never been billed for one..." My take on that was that your not having been billed lead you to assume that Medicaid had paid. I was making sure the record was correct. "Not so" is not correct.

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