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To: Chucky who wrote (130)9/11/1998 5:25:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (1) of 138
 
btw, to make the calculation easier
$100 * 12 months = $1,200 per year
$1,200 * 20 years = $24,000
;o)

Oops! You're right. I guess I should use a calculator next time. I withdraw that part of the argument.

I still maintain that the vast majority of first heart attacks occur after the person is already on Medicare and that most people have no idea that they have heart disease until that attack and would not normally seek any treatment. Therefore the money an HMO spends on early diagnoses will result in the treating of people that would not normally have been treated and would not have had a heart attack until after they were no longer the HMO's concern, which causes a net drain to them and they will not encourage this test.

I hope I'm wrong. Let's call a truce on this. I'll probably pay to have a heart mapping performed sometime in the future since I believe it to be a valuable test but I don't think an HMO will pay for it unless forced to.
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