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Originally Posted by Buckeye Bob
The key word in the above is "uninsured patients". Medicare is insurance regardless of your secondary coverage.
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Right but the question was about a person with nothing but boatload of money.
In any case my guess is that they are just trying to prevent double dipping... where your insurance company direct pays you a $1000 for a procedure because that is what the bill said but Shands ends up charging you only $600 after the discount you get when you pay it.
Web sites are usually not a good place to get the real details about things like this. It really something that would require talking with Shands to figure out.
In any case a Medicare Advantage plan
has to cover any procedure that is covered by regular Medicare. So if your surgeon was the only one in the area who was qualified to do your procedure (and from what GE said it sounds like that may have been the case) UHC MA would have figure out a way to get him and the hospital paid.