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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Prove it!!!!
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Villages Place - two small incidents where my questioning stopped billing Medicare for unnecessary services. My mother is 95 years old and has severe dementia. She cannot follow a conversation, or barely ask a question. She repeats the same things over and over and is even losing grasp of those repetitive statements. Somehow an occupational therapist and a psychiatrist were ordered for visits. What on earth could that possibly do for her. An occupational therapist could show her how to brush her hair and she would immediately forget what she learned. And a psychiatrist would simply try and talk to her, bill for his 30 minutes and be on with it.
So my stepping in and questioning these services, and obviously refusing them, stopped the medicare fraud that was about to be perpetuated. If I had taken the attitude, oh well, she's not paying for it, that could have denied someone else down the line that could actually benefit from these services.