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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (7513)	7/14/2009 7:06:13 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

What do the private insurers do? The only thing I know they do is say "no" a lot ..... Medicare doesn't intervene that way Medicare HMO's intervene plenty - pre-approvals, pre-certifications, you name it. "Regular" Medicare intervenes quite regularly by simply denying payment - AFTER the fact. With Medicaid, as a practitioner you're better off not to bill at all, just do the work pro bono -- the result is likely to be the same, but at least you'll feel better.