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Originally Posted by CFrance
Because by law Plan F is accepted anywhere in the country that Medicare is. They are getting around that somehow. I would like to know how.
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Very easy---a physicians office does not have to accept any insurance or patient they do not want to. They can apply a different rule to NEW patients. As long as they are consistent with existing patients, they have the prerogative to change the rules for new patients. We do this all the time, usually when an insurer drops reimbursement to a ridiculous low level. We don't like dropping patients we have had for 30 years, although some practices do, so we just don't accept any new patients with that insurance. Medicaid is a prime example. We take no new Medicaid, but have kept existing patients who already have it---if for no other reason than life circumstances can change
Hope that answers your question